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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThere is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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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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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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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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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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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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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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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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A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.
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So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.
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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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Not to speak is to speak.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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