This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERStrict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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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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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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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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.
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Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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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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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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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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The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
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