Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERNot everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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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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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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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 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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But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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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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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
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If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
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