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Cannot Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The…
- Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.
- And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and…
- God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us,…
- Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.
- God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame.…
- The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by…
- The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.
- How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
- 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…
- Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our…
- Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.' Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they…
- But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be…
- Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be…
- Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound…
- 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.…
- Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
- 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;…
- One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only…
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- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden