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Him Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether…
- It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God,…
- God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will…
- In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger…
- Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.
- Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they…
- When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek and find His living Word…
- 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 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…
- To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more…
- A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.
- 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…
- How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
- The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him.
- Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power of him who…
- The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.
- Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share…
- Only in Jesus are we able to pray, and with Him we also know that we shall be heard.
- When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
- Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
- Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free
- The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and…
- Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the…
- If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when…
- But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden