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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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Food Himself Ourselves
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
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Faith Greatness Learning Life Loyalty
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Journey Travel
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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Achievement Easy Gratitude Hard Help Important Life Rich
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Death Man Spiritual
Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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Alone Himself Religion Worth
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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Break Death Defeat Human Life Light Morning Remember Rise Sin
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
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Evil Grace Judgement Love Spiritual
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Important Philosophy Time Value Worth
God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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God Human Ideal Love Pain Reality 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
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Children Deep Moral
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
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Deep Himself Religious
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself

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