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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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Dare Father Gift Himself Need Secure
There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.
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Attachment Creation Reality Responsibility World
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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Beyond Expression Human Ourselves Sing Talk
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
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Faith Greatness Learning Life Loyalty
A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Deep Faith Religion
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Existence God Idol
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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God Worship
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
One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Act Worth
Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.
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Freedom Himself Myself Relationship
Advent creates people, new people.
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Creation One Liner People
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Deep Himself Religious
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Important Philosophy Time Value Worth
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
I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains – or spiritual trial? Once they’re over, the world looks quite a different place again.
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Different Growth Myself Oppression Pain Place Quite Reason Spiritual World

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