Dietrich Bonhoeffer on love
Dietrich Bonhoeffer93 quotes“It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.”
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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer 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.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer 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.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer 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.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer 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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