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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERTime is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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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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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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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 pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.
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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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