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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERCostly 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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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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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Advent creates people, new people.
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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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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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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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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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May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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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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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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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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