In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
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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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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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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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Not to speak is to speak.
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Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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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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The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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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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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
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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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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
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