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People Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they…
- We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only…
- 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…
- The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
- Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians because we are talking when we should be…
- When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people.
- The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor…
- Advent creates people, new people.
- It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.
- The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community…
- Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.
- 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…
- 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…
- Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
- So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with…
- A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to…
- Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who…
- 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…
- God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all;…
- We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending…
- 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.…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle