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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERA 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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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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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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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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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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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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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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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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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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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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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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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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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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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