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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERFruit 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.
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Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
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The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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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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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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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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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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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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Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
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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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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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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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