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Beginning Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because…
- The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to…
- On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he…
- 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…
- The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.
- Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.
- Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the…
- It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body…
- God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all;…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' — Margaret Atwood
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. — Saint Augustine
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
- Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. — Marcus Aurelius
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo