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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERA love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
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Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
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The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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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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