Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERBy judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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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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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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Advent creates people, new people.
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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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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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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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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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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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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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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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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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