Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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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Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.
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Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
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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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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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When 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.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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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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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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