Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThere 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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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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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My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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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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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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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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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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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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So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.
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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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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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