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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

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
My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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Forgiveness God Love Myself Past Religious Sin
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
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Himself Oneself Patience Religious Wait
Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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Ourselves People Quality Simplicity
Advent creates people, new people.
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Creation One Liner People
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
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
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
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
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
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
Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Control Exercise Life
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Existence God Idol
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
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Discipline God Man
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
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
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
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Desire Himself Oneself Person
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
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Important Philosophy Time Value Worth
There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.
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Attachment Creation Reality Responsibility World
The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.
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Evil Hands Himself Suffering Worst
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Journey Travel
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious

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