The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERWe must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
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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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The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
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When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
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Not to speak is to speak.
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May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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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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Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. 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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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.
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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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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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Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
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The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
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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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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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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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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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