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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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Action Death Love Man Old Reflection
Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
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Himself Oneself Patience Religious Wait
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Deep Himself Religious
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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God Man Religious
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
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
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth
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 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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Freedom Hope Oneself Photograph Prison Wait
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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God Worship
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
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
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
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Important Philosophy Time Value Worth

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