Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
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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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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Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment.
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The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
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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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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
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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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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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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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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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