One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe 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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Advent creates people, new people.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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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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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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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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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
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The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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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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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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