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Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Deep Religious Value Worth
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
Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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Alone Himself Religion Worth
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
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
It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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Love Marriage Yourself
The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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Religious Truth World
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
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Beginning End Happiness Life Ourselves Religious Unity
Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment.
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Darkness Eyes God Leaving Light Ourselves
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Important Philosophy Time Value Worth
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Discipline God Man
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
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
There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
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Fashion Ourselves Stay World Wrong
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
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Politics Power Responsibility

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