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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Desire Himself Oneself Person
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
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk
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
The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
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Enemy Faith History Love Ourselves War
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
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Action Responsibility
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
Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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Compassionate Path Sin
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
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Himself Oneself Patience Religious Wait
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Existence God Idol
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Believe God Life Yourself
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job

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

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