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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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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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The 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.
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If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?
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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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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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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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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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Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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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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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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The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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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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Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
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