God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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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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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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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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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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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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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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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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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
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