Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

425 quotes · Theologian

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

All Spiritual Philosophical Creative Love Courageous 425 quotes · page 18 of 36

Theologian

Spiritual

“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 the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.”

Home Jesus Uncomfortable Feeling

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Theologian

Happy

“Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.”

Holiday Calling Meals

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Spiritual

“When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.”

Prayer Christ

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Funny

“Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.”

Absolutes Seriousness

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Determined

“You can only learn what obedience is by obeying”

Obedience Obeying

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Spiritual

“A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.”

World Christian

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Calm

“Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.”

Joy Draws

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Melancholic

“Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.”

Art Eye Patience

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Philosophical

“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; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.”

People Past New Beginnings

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Spiritual

“...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all.”

Eye Dark Christmas

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Love

“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, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.”

Men Light Christmas

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Love

“Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.”

Jesus Letters Scripture

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