Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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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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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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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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There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
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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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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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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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Not to speak is to speak.
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