Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERIt is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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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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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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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 cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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Not to speak is to speak.
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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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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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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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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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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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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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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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