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.
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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I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains – or spiritual trial? Once they’re over, the world looks quite a different place again.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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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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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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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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Fruit 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.
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Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
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May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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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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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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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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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.
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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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We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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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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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
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Not to speak is to speak.
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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 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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