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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Children Deep Moral
Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.
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Creation Gift God Growth Himself Miracle Power Result Tree Willing
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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Direction Run Wrong Yourself
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Desire Himself Oneself Person
Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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Alone Himself Religion Worth
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
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
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
A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.
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God Man People
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
The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Force Religious World
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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God Man Religious
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
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
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
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Discipline God Man

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