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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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  The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

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  A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

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