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.
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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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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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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The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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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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There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
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Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.
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We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
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Not to speak is to speak.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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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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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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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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