Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Boenhoffer (1906-1945) was a German Lutheran theologian and pastor.

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The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.

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How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point?

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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

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...Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

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A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol

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We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

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Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer @DBonhoeffer]

The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but also make it.

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To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

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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

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So long as we eat our bread together, we shall have sufficient even for the least.

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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

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My behavior is thus determined not by the way others treat me, but by the treatment I receive from Jesus.

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As a Christian I am called to treat my enemy as a brother and to meet hostility with love.

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Which of us has really admitted that God’s goodness can also lead us into conflict.

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We have learned a bit too late in the day that action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.

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I can no longer condemn or hate a brother [or sister] for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

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Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

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By judging others, we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as ourselves.