One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERGrace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
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May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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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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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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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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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.
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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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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
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The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.
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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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