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If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Believe God Life Yourself
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
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Death Man Spiritual
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Deep Himself Religious
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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God Man Religious
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
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Funny Serious
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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Deal Gratitude Greatness Hard Life Ordinary Receive Rich
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
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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Freedom Hope Oneself Photograph Prison Wait
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
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
The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
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Break Death Defeat Human Life Light Morning Remember Rise Sin
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Important Philosophy Time Value Worth
No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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Enemy Greatness Love Ourselves Sacrifice

If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.

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If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.

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