How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe 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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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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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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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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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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Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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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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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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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don’t believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.
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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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