The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERYour life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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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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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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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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Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
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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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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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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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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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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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