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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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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God Worship
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
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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Grace Judgement Ourselves
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
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
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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Limitation Place Rejection Time
Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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Compassionate Path Sin
If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don’t believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.
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Believe Hope Religious Yourself
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
[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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God Man Philosophy Reality Religious
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves Religious
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
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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Ourselves People Quality Simplicity
I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains – or spiritual trial? Once they’re over, the world looks quite a different place again.
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Different Growth Myself Oppression Pain Place Quite Reason Spiritual World
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

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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