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.
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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The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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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.
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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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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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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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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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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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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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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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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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If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don’t believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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