Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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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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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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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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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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Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.
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Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
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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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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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