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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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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Fashion Ourselves Stay World Wrong
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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God Man Religious
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Death Man Spiritual
Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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Action Death Love Man Old Reflection
Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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Judgement Religious
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk
Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Control Exercise Life
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Deep Himself Religious
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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Comfortable Desire Difficult Feeling Home People
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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Deal Gratitude Greatness Hard Life Ordinary Receive Rich
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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Dare Father Gift Himself Need Secure
No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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Enemy Greatness Love Ourselves Sacrifice
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
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Limitation Place Rejection Time
A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Deep Faith Religion
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself

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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