25 result(s) for Dietrich Bonhoeffer Silence Quotes.
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
"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."
"There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to mistrust and this mistrust in turn brings forth war."
"The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them."
"Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is seeing. Once we are able to accept our limits, we transcend them."
"Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession...Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate."
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"Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ."
"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."
"The essence of optimism is not its view of the present, but it is the source of its hope and strength for the future. Other people are quite right to describe me as an optimist. I could not be anything else. For I believe that he who has hope lives in everything that he does, and he who is without hope contaminates it."
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."
"The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community."
"He is a slave to his own cause who will not lend a hand to his brothers in distress."
"Only those who cry out for the Jews would sing Gregorian chants."
"A jail cell is a good place to learn about yourself."
"There must be a world of meaning someplace where the present never uses people as its tools."
"If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction."
"An attitude of gratitude creates blessings."
"Every act of gratitude is a step towards transforming your world."
"Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy."
"To be silent in the face of evil is itself evil."
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"Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
"The Church is only the Church when it exists for others."
"In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate our own importance compared with what we owe to others."
"Whenever people seek to avoid assuming responsibility for their own behavior, they often start by claiming that they were just following orders."