In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERWhen Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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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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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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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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A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
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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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We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.
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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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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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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
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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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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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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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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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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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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 ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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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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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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