Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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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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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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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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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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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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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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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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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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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Not to speak is to speak.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
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