28 ordspråk av Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer föddes den
4 Februar 1906 och dog den 9 April
1945 - His involvement in a plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler led to his imprisonment and execution.
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Politics are not the task of a Christian.
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to h
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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.
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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.
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us.
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To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ
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To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the
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We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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