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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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Death Man Spiritual
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Desire Himself Oneself Person
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Death Enemy Fight Grace
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
So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.
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Comfortable Desire Difficult Feeling Home People
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
Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
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Carry People Respect Satisfaction Wait
Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.
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Freedom Himself Myself Relationship
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 only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
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Alone Grace Man Religion Right
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
May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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God Himself Leadership Leaving Time
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
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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Different Growth Myself Oppression Pain Place Quite Reason Spiritual World
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Discipline God Man

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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