The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERHow would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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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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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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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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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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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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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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My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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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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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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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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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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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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