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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERFruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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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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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 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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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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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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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?
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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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