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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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Death Man Spiritual
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
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves Religious
The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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Religious Truth World
It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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Lie Love Truth Worst
I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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Hate Himself Myself Prayer
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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Achievement Easy Gratitude Hard Help Important Life Rich
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
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
Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
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Alone Himself Ourselves
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Death Enemy Fight Grace
Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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Freedom Grace Simplicity

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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