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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
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
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves Religious
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
Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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Judgement Religious
The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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Creation Destroy Dream Love Person
It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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Lie Love Truth Worst
I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains – or spiritual trial? Once they’re over, the world looks quite a different place again.
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Different Growth Myself Oppression Pain Place Quite Reason Spiritual World
If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?
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Appearance Myself Person Possible Recognition Serious Sin Worst
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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Deal Gratitude Greatness Hard Life Ordinary Receive Rich
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
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Beginning End Happiness Life Ourselves Religious Unity
The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Force Religious World
If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don’t believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.
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Believe Hope Religious Yourself
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
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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Direction Run Wrong Yourself
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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Dare Father Gift Himself Need Secure

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