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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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
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Evil Grace Judgement Love Spiritual
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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God Worship
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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Freedom Himself Myself Relationship
Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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Food Himself Ourselves
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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Goodness Job Seek
Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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Freedom Grace Simplicity
Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Control Exercise Life
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Journey Travel
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Important Philosophy Time Value Worth
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Deep Faith Religion
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Politics Power Responsibility
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
[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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God Man Philosophy Reality Religious

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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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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