How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERNo sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Not to speak is to speak.
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Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.
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Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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