Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERIn 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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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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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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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The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
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If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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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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May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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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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The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
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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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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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I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains – or spiritual trial? Once they’re over, the world looks quite a different place again.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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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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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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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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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted 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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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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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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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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