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Human Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the…
- Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are…
- 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…
- Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into…
- The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
- God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.
- Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem…
- 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…
- There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become…
- God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.
- It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.
- Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
- God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real…
- While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills…
- Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and…
- We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God’s will and guidance. It is obvious, and it…
- 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…
- If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large…
- Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To…
- Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact…
- A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in…
- The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we…
- Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back…
- Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong