Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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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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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The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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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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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
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While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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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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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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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.
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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 task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
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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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In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.
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The Church is the Church only when it exists for others, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
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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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