Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
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Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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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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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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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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If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?
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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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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
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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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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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