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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

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Death Enemy Fight Grace
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Children Deep Moral
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
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Deep Religious Value Worth
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Discipline God Man
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk
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
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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Children Kind Leaving Moral World
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
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
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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Freedom Hope Oneself Photograph Prison Wait
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Death Man Spiritual
Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Control Exercise Life
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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Compassionate Path Sin

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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