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We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Believe God Life 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
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
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 loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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God Human Ideal Love Pain Reality 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
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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Himself Oneself Patience Religious Wait
The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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Religious Truth World
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
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Beginning End Happiness Life Ourselves Religious Unity
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
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Important Philosophy Time Value Worth
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
But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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Dare Father Gift Himself Need Secure
How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
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Believe Community Expectation

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