There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERStrict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
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So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.
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Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
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We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
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By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
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Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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