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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe 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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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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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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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Not to speak is to speak.
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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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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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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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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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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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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
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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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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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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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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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