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“I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.”
― Service With a Smile
― Service With a Smile
“In Christ we are invited to participate in the reality of God and the reality of the world at the same time, the one not without the other.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
“Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
“The justification of my life before God is to live because of and toward the living, dying, and rising of Jesus Christ.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
“What is worse than doing evil, is being evil” (Ethics, p.67). To lie is wrong, but what is worse than the lie is the liar, for the liar contaminates everything he says, because everything he says is meant to further a cause that is false. The liar as liar has endorsed a world of falsehood and deception, and to focus only on the truth or falsity of his particular statements is to miss the danger of being caught up in his twisted world. This is why, as Bonhoeffer says, that “(i)t is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie” (Ethics, p.67).”
― Ethics
― Ethics
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