Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERJesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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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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A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
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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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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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Not to speak is to speak.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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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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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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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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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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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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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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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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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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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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