The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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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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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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While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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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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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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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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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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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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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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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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