Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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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Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
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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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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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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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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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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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If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?
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We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
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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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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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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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When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
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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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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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