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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

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
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
Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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Action Death Love Man Old Reflection
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
Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.
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Freedom Himself Myself Relationship
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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Direction Run Wrong Yourself
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
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
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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Fashion Ourselves Stay World Wrong
A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Deep Faith Religion
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
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
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth

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