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Christianity Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
- Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
- Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.
- Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
- Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist…
- With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put…
- Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it is a brief, single…
- It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to…
- Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one possibility: simple surrender…
- Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
- Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
- Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
- Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing…
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