Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERWe 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.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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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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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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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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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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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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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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A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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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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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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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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