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Day Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines…
- Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and…
- But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.
- The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.
- It is not that God's help and presence must still be proved in our life; rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us…
- Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that…
- In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don’t…
- It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of confusion or inner…
- 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…
- The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods…
- Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong