When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFEROne act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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 not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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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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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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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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In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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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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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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