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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFEROur community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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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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The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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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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Not to speak is to speak.
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The Church is the Church only when it exists for others, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
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We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.
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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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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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Advent creates people, new people.
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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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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your 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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Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
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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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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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A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
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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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