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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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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Lie Love Truth Worst
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk
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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Existence God History Judgement Need Sin
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Death Man Spiritual
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
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
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God Ourselves Path People
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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Beyond Expression Human Ourselves Sing Talk
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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God Worship
The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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Religious Truth World
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Action Responsibility
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Deep Himself Religious
Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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Ourselves People Quality Simplicity
May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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God Himself Leadership Leaving Time
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Funny Serious

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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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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