This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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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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I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains – or spiritual trial? Once they’re over, the world looks quite a different place again.
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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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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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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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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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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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We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
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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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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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Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment.
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A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
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Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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