The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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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 to speak is to speak.
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We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
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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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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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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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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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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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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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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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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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The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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