If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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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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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.
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We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.
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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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We 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.
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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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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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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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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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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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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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If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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