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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
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 test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Children Deep Moral
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Funny Serious
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves Religious
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
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
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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Grace Judgement Ourselves
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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Limitation Place Rejection Time
Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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Food Himself Ourselves
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Politics Power Responsibility
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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Learning Light People Suffering
Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
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Himself Oneself Patience Religious Wait
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

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