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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

The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Force Religious World
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Politics Power Responsibility
A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.
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God Man People
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
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
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
How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
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Believe Community Expectation
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Journey Travel
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
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Limitation Place Rejection Time
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Existence God Idol
A 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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Alone Guilty Love People Reality Religious Responsibility
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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Death Simplicity Wound
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
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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Deep Religious Value Worth
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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Carry People Respect Satisfaction Wait

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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