Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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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We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
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Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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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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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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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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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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A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
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A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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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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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.
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