The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
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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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Not to speak is to speak.
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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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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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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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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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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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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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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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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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