Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Advent creates people, new people.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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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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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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Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
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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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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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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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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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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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