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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERWe must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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.
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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Not to speak is to speak.
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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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Advent creates people, new people.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.
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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.
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The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
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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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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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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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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
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A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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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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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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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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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment.
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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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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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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.
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The 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.
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