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We 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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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God Man 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
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
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
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Discipline God Man
The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
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Beyond Expression Human Ourselves Sing Talk
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
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
The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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Creation Destroy Dream Love Person
May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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God Himself Leadership Leaving Time
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Important Philosophy Time Value Worth
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Existence God Idol
God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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God Human Ideal Love Pain Reality World
A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.
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God Man People

We 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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