God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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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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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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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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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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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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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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The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
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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.
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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.
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