If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERYour life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.
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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
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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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Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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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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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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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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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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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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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.
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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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