I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains – or spiritual trial? Once they’re over, the world looks quite a different place again.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
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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I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains – or spiritual trial? Once they’re over, the world looks quite a different place again.
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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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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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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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There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.
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The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
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The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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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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But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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