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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

One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Act Worth
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
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Limitation Place Rejection Time
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
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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Freedom Hope Oneself Photograph Prison Wait
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
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
Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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Compassionate Path Sin
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Journey Travel
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Death Man Spiritual
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
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
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God Ourselves Path People
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 will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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Defeat Enemy Expression God Law Love Man Willing
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
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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Religious Truth World
The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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Creation Destroy Dream Love Person
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth
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
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Children Deep Moral
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
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
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
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 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

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