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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERNot hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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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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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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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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Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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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.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
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