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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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Deal Gratitude Greatness Hard Life Ordinary Receive Rich
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth
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
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
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
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
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
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Enemy Faith History Love Ourselves War
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
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Believe God Life Yourself
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
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Beginning End Happiness Life Ourselves Religious Unity
The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Force Religious World
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job

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