We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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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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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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But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
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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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Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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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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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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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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The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
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