Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERNo sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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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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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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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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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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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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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.
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Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.
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