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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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth
One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Act Worth
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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Goodness Job Seek
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
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Discipline God Man
Advent creates people, new people.
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Creation One Liner People
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
Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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Compassionate Path Sin
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
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
So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.
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Comfortable Desire Difficult Feeling Home People
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
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
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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Freedom Hope Oneself Photograph Prison Wait
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Journey Travel

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