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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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  The Church is the Church only when it exists for others, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

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  If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

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  We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

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  Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.

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  When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

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  By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

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  Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

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

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