A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERBy 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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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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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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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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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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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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Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
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The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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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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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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Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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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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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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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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May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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