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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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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Evil Grace Judgement Love Spiritual
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves Religious
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Discipline God Man
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.
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Comfortable Desire Difficult Feeling Home People
It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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Love Marriage Yourself
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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Evil Hands Himself Suffering Worst
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
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Desire Himself Oneself Person
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
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
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
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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Freedom Himself Myself Relationship
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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End Faith Life Spirit Struggle Weapon
But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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Dare Father Gift Himself Need Secure
Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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Judgement Religious

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