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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
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
A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
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Alone Guilty Love People Reality Religious Responsibility
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
Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
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Alone Himself Ourselves
A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Deep Faith Religion
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
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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God Man Religious
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
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
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth
If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
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Appearance Myself Recognition Sin
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Action Responsibility
May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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God Himself Leadership Leaving Time
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
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Believe God Life Yourself

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