Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERIt is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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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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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.
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God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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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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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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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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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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The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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The Church is the Church only when it exists for others, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
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The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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