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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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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 (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
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 (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
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 (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others... not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
For we cannot speak of the beginning; where the beginning begins our thinking stops, it comes to an end (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
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 (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
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 (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspective of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
Only because the message concerning Jesus Christ must still go forth and find believers, and because our task is not yet perfected, does God in His patience continue to sustain us with His good gifts (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
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 (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
Jesus goes on before to Jerusalem and to the cross, and they are filled with fear and amazement at the road he calls them to follow (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
Nevertheless, it is the free grace of the resurrected One that now also goes after the individual, overcomes the doubter, and creates in him the Easter faith (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for it's children (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
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 (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy’s hatred, the greater his need of love (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes)