There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve 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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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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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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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.
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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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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
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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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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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