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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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God Man Religious
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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Appearance Myself Person Possible Recognition Serious Sin Worst
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
Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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Ourselves People Quality Simplicity
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
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
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
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
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
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Children Deep Moral
One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Act Worth
A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Deep Faith Religion
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
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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Alone Grace Man Religion Right

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