Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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- Scripture was given to the church, and theology is a necessary work of the church, by the church, in the church, and for the church. – Kenneth S Kantzer
- At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- -‘What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?’There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter – PG Wodehouse
- God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The temple of God is the holy people in Jesus Christ. The Body of Christ is the living temple of God and of the new humanity. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends. – Kami Garcia
- The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. – Niccol Machiavelli
- Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- [Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice. – Jonathan Haidt
- A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- It is not your love that sustains the marriage,but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Or is what remains in me like a defeated army,Fleeing in disarray from victory already won? – Bonhoeffer Dietrich
- We should never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Jesus. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- It is a costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- 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. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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- Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Advent creates people, new people. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer