Advent creates people, new people.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Advent creates people, new people.
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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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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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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
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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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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
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