If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERChristianity 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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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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Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. 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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The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
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The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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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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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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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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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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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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I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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