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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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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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Not to speak is to speak.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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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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Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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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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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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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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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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Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
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