There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFEROne act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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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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A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.
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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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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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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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A 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.
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A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
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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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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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