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In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Act Worth
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Force Religious World
A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
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Alone Guilty Love People Reality Religious Responsibility
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
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
It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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Love Marriage Yourself
A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Deep Faith Religion
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 Church is the Church only when it exists for others, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
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Existence Help Live Man
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
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
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Gift Grace Man
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
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Death Simplicity Wound
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
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
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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Existence Himself Justice Myself Peace Worth

In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.

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