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The 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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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Alone Himself Religion Worth
We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.
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Existence God History Judgement Need Sin
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
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
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
Advent creates people, new people.
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Creation One Liner People
There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.
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Attachment Creation Reality Responsibility World
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Believe God Life Yourself
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
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk
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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Hate Himself Myself Prayer
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
Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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Judgement Religious
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves Religious
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word

The 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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The 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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