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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

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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Appearance Myself Recognition Sin
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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Goodness Job Seek
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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Children Kind Leaving Moral World
Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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Freedom Grace Simplicity
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.
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Death Simplicity Wound
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Desire Himself Oneself Person
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
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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Lie Love Truth Worst
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
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Funny Serious
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves Religious
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
Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
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Deep Religious Value Worth
In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Dare Man Mental Myself Presence Sick Sin

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