Dietrich Bonhoeffer quotes - page 3

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. View quote
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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy. View quote
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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. View quote
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When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh. View quote
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What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience. View quote
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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. View quote
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How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe. View quote
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Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. View quote
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The cross is suffering with Christ. View quote
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The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ. View quote
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Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial. View quote
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. View quote
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In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves. View quote
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God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross. View quote
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Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us. View quote
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There remains an experience of incomparable value. View quote
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Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death. View quote
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Love for the sinner is ominously close to love of the sin. But the love of Christ for the sinner in itself is the condemnation of sin. View quote
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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)
The sword wherewith they judge their brethren will fall upon their own heads. Instead of cutting themselves off from the brother as the just from the unjust, they find themselves cut off from Jesus. View quote
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In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don't insist on your rights, don't blame each other, don't judge or condemn each other, don't find fault with each other, but accept each other as you are, and forgive each other every day from the bottom of your hearts... View quote
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Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory. View quote
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Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to Jesus. View quote
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