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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERChristianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
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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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Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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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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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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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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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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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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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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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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