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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
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Enemy Faith History Love Ourselves War
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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Direction Run Wrong Yourself
Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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Existence Himself Justice Myself Peace Worth
Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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Action Death Love Man Old Reflection
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
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Beginning End Happiness Life Ourselves Religious Unity
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Deep Himself Religious
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Death Man Spiritual
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Act Worth
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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Goodness Job Seek
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Funny Serious
[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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God Man Philosophy Reality Religious
Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Control Exercise Life
A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.
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God Man People
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
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Limitation Place Rejection Time
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

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