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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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
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
Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
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Carry People Respect Satisfaction Wait
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
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Fashion Ourselves Stay World Wrong
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
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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God Man Religious
One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Act Worth
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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Appearance Myself Person Possible Recognition Serious Sin Worst
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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Limitation Place Rejection Time
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
Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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Alone Himself Religion Worth
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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Existence Help Live Man
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Death Man Spiritual
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

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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