The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
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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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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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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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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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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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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
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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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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
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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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The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
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