Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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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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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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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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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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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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Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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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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The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
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