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"50 Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 4 February 1906. Died: 9 April 1945 | Clergyman | Theologian | Anti-Nazi dissident |

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.

Must learn Regard people The light They suffer
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Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Judging others Us blind Whereas love Is illuminating
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Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless.Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Silence The face Of evil God
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Music-will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities,and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

Music Help dissolve Your perplexities Your character
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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.

Simply bandage The wounds Victims beneath Injustice
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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Ultimate test Moral society The kind World
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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.

The life Faith Unending struggle The spirit
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

Be ready Allow ourselves Be interrupted By God
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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
Is meaning Every journey Is unknown The traveler
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Action springs From thought Readiness Responsibility
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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.

We pray Big things Give thanks The ordinary
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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

In ordinary life Hardly realize Great deal We give
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

God tears Great gap Fill them Human words
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Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
Time Valuable thing We have Most irrevocable
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Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

Hero worship But intimacy With Christ
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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.

Longer condemn Hate I pray Much trouble
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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

Your love That sustains The marriage
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

Absolute seriousness Is never A dash Humor
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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.

Be ready Allow ourselves Be interrupted By God
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The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

The will God The law Gives expression
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.

God The emotions Truth
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

The test The morality A society Its children
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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Christianity Without discipleship Without Christ
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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

The person Loves Their dream Community
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The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

Only man The right Justified By grace
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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.

My sinfulness Appears Way smaller In comparison
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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.

No sacrifice A lover His beloved Too great
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One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.

One act Obedience Is worth Hundred sermons
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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

Prison cell One waits Hopes Completely dependent
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Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

Be faithful Great things Not learned Daily life
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Political action means taking on responsibility.This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Political action On responsibility Cannot happen Without power
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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.

Speak it Sing it Only expresses Spoken words
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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.

You believe First step It leads Jesus Christ
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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.

Are worth Standing up Without compromise Peace
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Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

Any honor Our way Only stolen Really belong
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.

Who believes Is obedient
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Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life.

Strict exercise Self control Essential feature Christian life
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May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.

May God His mercy Lead us These time
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

Person desires To keep Own bread Hunger ensue
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The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.

The cross Terrible end God fearing Happy life
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

Your life A christian Non believers Question
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The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.

Pastoral ministry Arrange contingencies An encounter The divine
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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

Our community Consists solely What Christ Has done
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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

The truth Whole world Been turned Upside down
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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.

Past life Abundantly full God's mercy Forgiving love
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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.

Wrong way The world Fashioning ourselves
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It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.

Is worse A liar The truth A lover
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.

False faith Is capable Terrible Monstrous things
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This is the end. For me the beginning of life.

The end The beginning Life
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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.

Our eyes At fault God The manger
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes & Sayings