The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERHow would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
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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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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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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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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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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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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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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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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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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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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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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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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