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May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Action Responsibility
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
Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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Compassionate Path Sin
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
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
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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Children Kind Leaving Moral World
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
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Gift Grace Man
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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God Worship
Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
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Himself Oneself Patience Religious Wait
It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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Lie Love Truth Worst
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Existence God Idol
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Act Worth
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Discipline God Man
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Journey Travel

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