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Church Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in…
- The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life…
- The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.
- The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
- The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
- The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.
- The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the…
- It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.
- Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.
- Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without…
- Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
- 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…
- The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin…
- True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its…
- The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it…
- So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with…
- It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is…
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- I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state. — Michael Badnarik
- I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large -… — Julianna Baggott
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
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- I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we… — Don Adams
- See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious. — Charles Barkley
- In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. — Karl Barth