How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
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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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 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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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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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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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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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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The Church is the Church only when it exists for others, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
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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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Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
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When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
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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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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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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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