Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERCheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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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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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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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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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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Not to speak is to speak.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
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