If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don’t believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERAbsolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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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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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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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Not to speak is to speak.
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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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How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
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The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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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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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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