The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
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Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
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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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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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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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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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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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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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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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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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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
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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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