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.
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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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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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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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. 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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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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If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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