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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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Grace Judgement Ourselves
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
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Death Enemy Fight Grace
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
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Action Responsibility
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
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
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
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
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Deep Himself Religious
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
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk
One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Act Worth
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Death Man Spiritual
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Deep Faith Religion

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