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Not to speak is to speak.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
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Forget Gift Ordinary Prayer Thankful
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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God Worship
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
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Action Responsibility
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.
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Compassionate Path Sin
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Politics Power Responsibility
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Funny Serious
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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Love Marriage Yourself
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Deep Himself Religious
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
One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Act Worth
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Death Enemy Fight Grace
May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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God Himself Leadership Leaving Time
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
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

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