It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFEROne act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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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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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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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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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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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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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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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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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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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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