No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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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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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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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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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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The Church is the Church only when it exists for others, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
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How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
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The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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