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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERI can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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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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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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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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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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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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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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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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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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The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
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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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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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