Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Not to speak is to speak.
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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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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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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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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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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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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.
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While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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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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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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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.
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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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