"It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell...

Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~












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