If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with … - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. . . . How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

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