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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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Defeat Enemy Expression God Law Love Man Willing
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
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
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Funny Serious
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
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
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
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God Ourselves Surrender
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
A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
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Alone Guilty Love People Reality Religious Responsibility
God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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God Human Ideal Love Pain Reality World
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
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Existence God Idol
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
Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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Freedom Grace Simplicity

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