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 BONHOEFFERA God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Not to speak is to speak.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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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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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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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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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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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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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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When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.
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