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More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

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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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  LoveMarriageYourself
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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.

  DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
  EnemyFaithHistoryLoveOurselvesWar
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  Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

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  DesireHimselfOneselfPerson
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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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  DarknessEyesGodLeavingLightOurselves
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  Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

  DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
  GodHumanTearsWord
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  It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.

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  LieLoveTruthWorst
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  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.

  DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
  ComfortableDesireDifficultFeelingHomePeople
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  In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

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  AchievementEasyGratitudeHardHelpImportantLifeRich
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  There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

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  JourneyTravel
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  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.

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  AttachmentCreationRealityResponsibilityWorld
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  God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.

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  EmotionalGodTruth
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  Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

  DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
  DisciplineGodMan
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  This is the end. For me the beginning of life.

  DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
  BeginningEndLifeMyself
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  A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.

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  GodManPeople
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  Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. 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 BONHOEFFER
  EvilGraceJudgementLoveSpiritual
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  Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

  DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
  FunnySerious
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  Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

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  CommunityOurselvesReligious
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  Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

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  DeathEnemyFightGrace
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  Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

  DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
  FreedomGraceSimplicity
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  Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

  DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
  DisciplineGodReligious
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  A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.

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  DeepFaithReligion
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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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  ExistenceGodHistoryJudgementNeedSin
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  Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.

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  GodManReligious
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  One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.

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  ActWorth
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  It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

  DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
  DeepHimselfReligious
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  The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

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  LimitationPlaceRejectionTime
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  If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

  DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
  DirectionRunWrongYourself