We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERA 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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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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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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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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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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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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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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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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.
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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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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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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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Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment.
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