It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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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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If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don’t believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.
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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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The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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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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A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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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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Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
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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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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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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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