Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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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But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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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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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.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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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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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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I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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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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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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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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The 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.
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