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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
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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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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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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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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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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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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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