Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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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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Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
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In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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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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The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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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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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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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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We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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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.
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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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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.
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