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I thought,” Dietrich wrote, imagining he would soon be executed, “I myself could learn to have faith by trying to live something like a saintly life… Later on I discovered and am still discovering, that one only learns to have faith by living in the full this-worldliness of life. If one has completely renounced making something of oneself …then one throws oneself completely into the arms of God, and this is what I call this-worldliness: living fully in the midst of life’s tasks, questions, succe
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Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you’ (Matt. 7:6). The promise of grace is not to be squandered; it needs to be protected from the godless. There are those who are not worthy of the sanctuary. The proclamation of grace has its limits. Grace may not be proclaimed to anyone who does not recognize or distinguish or desire it. Not only does that pollute the sanctuary itself, not only must those who sin still
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