My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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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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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
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The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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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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In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.
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Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
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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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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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Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. 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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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.
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How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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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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A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.
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The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.
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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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A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
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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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