The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERNothing 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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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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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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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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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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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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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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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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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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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