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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

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
There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
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Fashion Ourselves Stay World Wrong
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Desire Himself Oneself Person
Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.
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Freedom Himself Myself Relationship
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
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
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
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
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
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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Achievement Easy Gratitude Hard Help Important Life Rich
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
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
[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
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
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
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves Religious

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