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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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Freedom Hope Oneself Photograph Prison Wait
There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
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Fashion Ourselves Stay World Wrong
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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Direction Run Wrong Yourself
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
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Desire Himself Oneself Person
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
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
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
When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
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End Faith Life Spirit Struggle Weapon
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
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
Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
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Deep Religious Value Worth
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Discipline God Man
The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Force Religious World

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

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