Not to speak is to speak.
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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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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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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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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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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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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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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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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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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The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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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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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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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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