The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERChristianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
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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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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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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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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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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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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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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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May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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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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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.
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