May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERWhere God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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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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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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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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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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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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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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