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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Death Enemy Fight Grace
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
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God Ourselves Surrender
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 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
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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Defeat Enemy Expression God Law Love Man Willing
There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.
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Attachment Creation Reality Responsibility World
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Action Responsibility
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
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Deep Himself Religious
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk
[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
The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Force Religious World
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
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Children Deep Moral
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
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself

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