Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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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The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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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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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
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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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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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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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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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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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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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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 board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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