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Out Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
- 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…
- The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
- But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more…
- 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…
- And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and…
- There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply…
- Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.
- It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.
- We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God's coming at Christmas that we no longer feel the shiver of…
- If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait…
- The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do…
- The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by…
- 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…
- As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your…
- 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 child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right…
- We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt…
- It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.…
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