Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERCheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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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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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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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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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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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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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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The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
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