I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThere is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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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 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.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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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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Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment.
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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