Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERIt 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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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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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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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 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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Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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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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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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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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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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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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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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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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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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Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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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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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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