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God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

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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Religious Truth World
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
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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Enemy Faith History Love Ourselves War
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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God Worship
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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God Man Religious
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Death Man Spiritual
The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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Creation Destroy Dream Love Person
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
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
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Children Deep Moral
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
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Existence Help Live Man
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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Evil Mindset Person Philosophy Time Tools
One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Act Worth
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
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
Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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Freedom Grace Simplicity

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