The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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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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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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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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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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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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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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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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