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Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
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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Break Death Defeat Human Life Light Morning Remember Rise Sin
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Believe God Life Yourself
Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Control Exercise Life
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
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Discipline God Man
Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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Food Himself Ourselves
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
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
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
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Faith Greatness Learning Life Loyalty
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Journey Travel
If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?
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Appearance Myself Person Possible Recognition Serious Sin Worst
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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Attachment Creation Reality Responsibility World

Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.

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