God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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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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 the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.
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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 will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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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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Advent creates people, new people.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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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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Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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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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