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World Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
- 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…
- The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.
- One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration…
- A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.
- 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…
- Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.
- God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us,…
- The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.
- After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.
- 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…
- A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a…
- 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.
- 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…
- Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.
- I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns…
- The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves…
- The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is…
- As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards our enemy. There…
- the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
- The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — 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
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach