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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
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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God Man People
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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Himself Oneself Patience Religious Wait
The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Force Religious World
My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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Forgiveness God Love Myself Past Religious Sin
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
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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Carry People Respect Satisfaction Wait
How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
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Believe Community Expectation
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
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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Existence Himself Justice Myself Peace Worth
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
The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.
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Evil Hands Himself Suffering Worst
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
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
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Gift Grace Man
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
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Evil Grace Judgement Love Spiritual

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