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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?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment.
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Darkness Eyes God Leaving Light Ourselves
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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Compassionate Path Sin
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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God Worship
Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
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Evil Mindset Person Philosophy Time Tools
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth
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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Carry People Respect Satisfaction Wait
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Desire Himself Oneself Person
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
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 be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
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God Ourselves Path People
The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
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Beyond Expression Human Ourselves Sing Talk
If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
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Appearance Myself Recognition Sin
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
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

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