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The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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Goodness Job Seek
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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Evil Mindset Person Philosophy Time Tools
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
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
Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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Ourselves People Quality Simplicity
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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Gift Grace 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
If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don’t believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.
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Believe Hope Religious Yourself
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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Deal Gratitude Greatness Hard Life Ordinary Receive Rich
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth
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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Fashion Ourselves Stay World Wrong
No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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Enemy Greatness Love Ourselves Sacrifice
I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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Hate Himself Myself Prayer
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Death Enemy Fight Grace
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 my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?
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Appearance Myself Person Possible Recognition Serious Sin Worst

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