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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
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Death Simplicity Wound
The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
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Beyond Expression Human Ourselves Sing Talk
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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Learning Light People Suffering
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
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Existence Help Live Man
No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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Enemy Greatness Love Ourselves Sacrifice
[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
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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Faith Greatness Learning Life Loyalty
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Existence God Idol
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Deep Himself Religious
The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
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Break Death Defeat Human Life Light Morning Remember Rise Sin
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
Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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Alone Himself Religion Worth
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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God Man Religious
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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Alone Himself Ourselves
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves Religious

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