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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
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
Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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Existence Himself Justice Myself Peace Worth
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
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Politics Power Responsibility
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
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
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
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk
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
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
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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God Ourselves Path People
Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment.
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Darkness Eyes God Leaving Light 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
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Action Responsibility

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