As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins. Dietrich Bonhoeffer More Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer More Quotes From Dietrich Bonhoeffer Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. Dietrich Bonhoeffer church loneliness people The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man. Dietrich Bonhoeffer incarnation reason-why men A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world. Dietrich Bonhoeffer suffering christian world As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future. Dietrich Bonhoeffer armor long looks 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. Dietrich Bonhoeffer foe thick christian While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task. Dietrich Bonhoeffer holy tasks knows The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus. Dietrich Bonhoeffer brother christian jesus If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own? Dietrich Bonhoeffer sin humility way The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind Dietrich Bonhoeffer church light morning Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor. Dietrich Bonhoeffer seriousness absolutes Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Dietrich Bonhoeffer creative suffering time To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.' Dietrich Bonhoeffer asceticism denial self 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 anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world. Dietrich Bonhoeffer fate christian fall Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us. Dietrich Bonhoeffer respect christian god My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified. Dietrich Bonhoeffer forgiving life-is past There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the inner life. Any attempt to escape from the world must sooner or later be paid for with a sinful surrender to the world. Dietrich Bonhoeffer spheres christian world 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 is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ Dietrich Bonhoeffer taken soul men If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves. Dietrich Bonhoeffer independent giving-up religious 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 us people with claims and petitions. Dietrich Bonhoeffer claims path people Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work. Dietrich Bonhoeffer prayer work morning
