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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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
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
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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Ourselves People Quality Simplicity
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
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner 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
Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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Existence Himself Justice Myself Peace Worth
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Important Philosophy Time Value Worth
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Desire Himself Oneself Person
Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
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Deep Religious Value Worth
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
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
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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Defeat Enemy Expression God Law Love Man Willing

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