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While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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Creation Destroy Dream Love Person
Advent creates people, new people.
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Creation One Liner People
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Funny Serious
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Existence God Idol
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Discipline God Man
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
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Deep Himself Religious
The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Force Religious World
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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Forgiveness God Love Myself Past Religious Sin
The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.
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Evil Hands Himself Suffering Worst
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
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Believe Community Expectation
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
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
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
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God Ourselves Path People

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

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