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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Control Exercise Life
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
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
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Journey Travel
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
Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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Judgement Religious
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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Appearance Myself Recognition Sin
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Existence God Idol
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
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God Ourselves Surrender
We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.
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Existence God History Judgement Need Sin
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Funny Serious
When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
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End Faith Life Spirit Struggle Weapon
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
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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Grace Judgement Ourselves
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

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

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