Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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.
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Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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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.
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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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Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains – or spiritual trial? Once they’re over, the world looks quite a different place again.
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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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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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