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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Believe God Life Yourself
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Death Man Spiritual
If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don’t believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.
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Believe Hope Religious Yourself
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Funny Serious
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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God Worship
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
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
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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Deal Gratitude Greatness Hard Life Ordinary Receive Rich
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
[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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God Man Philosophy Reality Religious
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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Goodness Job Seek
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Politics Power Responsibility
Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
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Evil Mindset Person Philosophy Time Tools
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

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

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