Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERIt is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
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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 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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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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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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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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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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The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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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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Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
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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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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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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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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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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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Not to speak is to speak.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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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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May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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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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