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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
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
If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
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Appearance Myself Recognition Sin
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
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
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Limitation Place Rejection Time
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves Religious
Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
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Carry People Respect Satisfaction Wait
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
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
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
The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Force Religious World
Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
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Alone Himself Ourselves
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
Advent creates people, new people.
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Creation One Liner People
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
[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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God Man Philosophy Reality Religious

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