A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERDiscipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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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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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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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
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The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.
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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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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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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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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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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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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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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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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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