Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERBy 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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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
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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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Not to speak is to speak.
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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.
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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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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.
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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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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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