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.
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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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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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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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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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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The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?
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Not to speak is to speak.
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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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.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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