If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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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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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 ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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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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The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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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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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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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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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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