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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Believe God Life Yourself
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Existence God Idol
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
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
A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Deep Faith Religion
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
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
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
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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Learning Light People Suffering
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
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. 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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Evil Grace Judgement Love Spiritual
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth
Advent creates people, new people.
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Creation One Liner People
I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains – or spiritual trial? Once they’re over, the world looks quite a different place again.
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Different Growth Myself Oppression Pain Place Quite Reason Spiritual World
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
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

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