Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all … - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.

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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

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God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.

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The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

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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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