I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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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.
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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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[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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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains – or spiritual trial? Once they’re over, the world looks quite a different place again.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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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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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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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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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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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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