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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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Direction Run Wrong Yourself
If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
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Appearance Myself Recognition Sin
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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God Worship
Advent creates people, new people.
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Creation One Liner People
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
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God Ourselves Surrender
If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?
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Appearance Myself Person Possible Recognition Serious Sin Worst
The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
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Enemy Faith History Love Ourselves War
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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God Man Religious
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Journey Travel
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
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
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
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
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
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

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