Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERWhen all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
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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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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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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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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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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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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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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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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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