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By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Funny Serious
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
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
A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Deep Faith Religion
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
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
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Politics Power Responsibility
I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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Hate Himself Myself Prayer
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves 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
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
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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God Worship
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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God Man Religious

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

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