The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERJudging 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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains – or spiritual trial? Once they’re over, the world looks quite a different place again.
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How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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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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If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don’t believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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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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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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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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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.
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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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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 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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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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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.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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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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The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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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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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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