Dietrich Bonhoeffer on religion
Dietrich Bonhoeffer93 quotes“Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.”
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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.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer 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.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer 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.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer 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.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer 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.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Equality, absolutely, that’s what defines us. It’s what makes us great. If it doesn’t sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out in the end, but that’s us. We’re equal.
Brad PittBrad Pitt A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
Martin LutherMartin Luther Adversity reminds men of religion.
LivyLivy Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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