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Life Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
- It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!
- Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.
- The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is…
- Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.
- If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course…
- Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who…
- Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 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.
- Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.
- Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering,…
- Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
- Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life
- The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.
- The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.
- How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in…
- Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man…
- 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…
- So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
- Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.
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- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle