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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThrough our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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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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Not to speak is to speak.
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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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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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The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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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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