Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.
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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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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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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[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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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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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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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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In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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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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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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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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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.
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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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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God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains – or spiritual trial? Once they’re over, the world looks quite a different place again.
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