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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERWe must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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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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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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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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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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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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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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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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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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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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The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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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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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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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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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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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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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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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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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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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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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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The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
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