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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.
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Dare Man Mental Myself Presence Sick Sin
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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Beginning End Happiness Life Ourselves Religious Unity
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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Appearance Myself Recognition Sin
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Funny Serious
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
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
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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Darkness Eyes God Leaving Light Ourselves
If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?
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Appearance Myself Person Possible Recognition Serious Sin Worst
We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
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Forget Gift Ordinary Prayer Thankful
The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
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Alone Grace Man Religion Right
It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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Lie Love Truth Worst
How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
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Believe Community Expectation
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
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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Gift Grace Man
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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God Man Religious

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