How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERMy past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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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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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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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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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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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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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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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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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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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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