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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Deep Himself Religious
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
Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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Alone Himself Religion Worth
Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Compassionate Path Sin
Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.
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Creation Gift God Growth Himself Miracle Power Result Tree Willing
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment.
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Darkness Eyes God Leaving Light Ourselves
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Children Deep Moral
It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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Lie Love Truth Worst
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Action Responsibility
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 until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Desire Himself Oneself Person
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Death Man Spiritual
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
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

Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

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