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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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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 world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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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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Not to speak is to speak.
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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 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 will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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The Church is the Church only when it exists for others, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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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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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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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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If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?
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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.
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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.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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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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Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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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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