We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERWe are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
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Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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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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We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.
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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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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.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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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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The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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