Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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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 to speak is to speak.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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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 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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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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God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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