Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERDiscipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.
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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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While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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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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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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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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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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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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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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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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Advent creates people, new people.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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