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How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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Achievement Easy Gratitude Hard Help Important Life Rich
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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God Ourselves Path People
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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Alone Grace Man Religion Right
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
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
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Children Deep Moral
We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.
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Existence God History Judgement Need Sin
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
If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
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Appearance Myself Recognition Sin
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Politics Power Responsibility
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Journey Travel
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. 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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Evil Grace Judgement Love Spiritual
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

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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