God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe 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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.
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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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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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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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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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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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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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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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