Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERA false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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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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When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
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Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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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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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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Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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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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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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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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