Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The 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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Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
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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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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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Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
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The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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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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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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So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.
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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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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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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 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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