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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERPolitical action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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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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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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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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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 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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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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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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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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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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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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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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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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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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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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