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 BONHOEFFERWe are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Not to speak is to speak.
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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 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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There 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.
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While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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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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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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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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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 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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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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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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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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May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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