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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERNothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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We 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.
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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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If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don’t believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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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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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.
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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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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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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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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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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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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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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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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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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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