We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThere can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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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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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Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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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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A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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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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But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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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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A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.
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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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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
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Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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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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