A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERIt is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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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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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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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
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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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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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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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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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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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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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