Dietrich Bonhoeffer

(375 votes)   It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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(150 votes)   Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

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(122 votes)   Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

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(87 votes)   Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1906-1945, German Lutheran Pastor and Theologian

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(87 votes)   The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1906-1945, German Lutheran Pastor and Theologian

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(64 votes)   Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

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(62 votes)   It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

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(60 votes)   God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

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(60 votes)   Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

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(58 votes)   A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

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(57 votes)   Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

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(56 votes)   If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

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(54 votes)   One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

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(48 votes)   The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

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(45 votes)   It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

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