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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Act Worth
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
A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Deep Faith Religion
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
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
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Believe God Life Yourself
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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Fashion Ourselves Stay World Wrong
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
We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
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Forget Gift Ordinary Prayer Thankful
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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Achievement Easy Gratitude Hard Help Important Life Rich
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Politics Power Responsibility
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
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Important Philosophy Time Value Worth
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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God Man Religious
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Funny Serious
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk

[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.

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