Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Called to Sympathy and Action
By Regina Nigro — 2010
Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behavior.
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