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In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves Religious
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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Achievement Easy Gratitude Hard Help Important Life Rich
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Existence God Idol
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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Alone Grace Man Religion Right
Advent creates people, new people.
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Creation One Liner People
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
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
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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Deep Religious Value Worth
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
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
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
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
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Journey Travel
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
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

In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

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In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

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