Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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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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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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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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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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