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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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Appearance Myself Recognition Sin
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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Existence Himself Justice Myself Peace Worth
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
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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God Human Ideal Love Pain Reality World
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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Children Kind Leaving Moral World
It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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Love Marriage Yourself
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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End Faith Life Spirit Struggle Weapon
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves Religious
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Believe God Life Yourself
Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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Ourselves People Quality Simplicity
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Journey Travel
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Deep Himself Religious
Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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Food Himself Ourselves
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
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

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