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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERYour life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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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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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don’t believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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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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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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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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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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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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