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The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
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End Faith Life Spirit Struggle Weapon
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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Achievement Easy Gratitude Hard Help Important Life Rich
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Desire Himself Oneself Person
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
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
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
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Existence Help Live Man
Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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Action Death Love Man Old Reflection
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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Goodness Job Seek
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Journey Travel
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
Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Control Exercise Life
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
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Discipline God Man
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 test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Children Deep Moral
Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.
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Creation Gift God Growth Himself Miracle Power Result Tree Willing

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