Advent creates people, new people.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERAction springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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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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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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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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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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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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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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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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The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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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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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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