Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them.
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Love wants nothing from the other but wants everything for the other.
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The test of morality of a society is what it does with it's children.
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Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial. Christianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.
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The hungry need bread and the homeless need a roof; the dispossessed need justice and the lonely need fellowship; the undisciplined need order and the slaves need freedom. To allow the hungry to remain hungry would be blasphemy against God and one’s neighbor, for what is nearest to God is precisely the need of one’s neighbor.
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God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.
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The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil, it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless.
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The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine
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Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God’s way is.
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