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The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. 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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Evil Grace Judgement Love Spiritual
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 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
Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
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Carry People Respect Satisfaction Wait
A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.
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God Man People
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
Advent creates people, new people.
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Creation One Liner People
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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Grace Judgement Ourselves
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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God Man 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 must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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Learning Light People Suffering
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Believe God Life Yourself
The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
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Enemy Faith History Love Ourselves War
Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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Freedom Grace Simplicity
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
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Gift Grace Man
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

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