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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves Religious
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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Learning Light People Suffering
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Death Enemy Fight Grace
I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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Hate Himself Myself Prayer
The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
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Alone Grace Man Religion Right
A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Deep Faith Religion
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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Defeat Enemy Expression God Law Love Man Willing
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk
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
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Funny Serious
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
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
One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Act Worth
[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

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