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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.
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Dare Man Mental Myself Presence Sick Sin
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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Achievement Easy Gratitude Hard Help Important Life Rich
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Believe God Life Yourself
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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Forgiveness God Love Myself Past Religious Sin
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Politics Power Responsibility
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
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves Religious
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
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
The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Force Religious World
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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God Worship
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Deep Himself Religious
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

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

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