Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERYour life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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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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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
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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 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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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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How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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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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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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