Not to speak is to speak.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThere is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.
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The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
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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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When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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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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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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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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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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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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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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In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.
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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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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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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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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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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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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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