The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe 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.
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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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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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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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
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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 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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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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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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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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