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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThere 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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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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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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Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. 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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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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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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God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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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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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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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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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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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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Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
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