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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
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
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
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
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Important Philosophy Time Value Worth
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
We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
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Forget Gift Ordinary Prayer Thankful
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
A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
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Alone Guilty Love People Reality Religious Responsibility
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
One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Act Worth
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Desire Himself Oneself Person
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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Grace Judgement Ourselves
My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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Forgiveness God Love Myself Past Religious Sin
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

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