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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
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Believe Community Expectation
Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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Alone Himself Religion Worth
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
Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Control Exercise Life
Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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Ourselves People Quality Simplicity
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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Defeat Enemy Expression God Law Love Man Willing
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Politics Power Responsibility
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
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Important Philosophy Time Value 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
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Deep Himself Religious
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Believe God Life Yourself
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.
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Freedom Himself Myself Relationship
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious

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