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Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.

Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us. I

We must be able to speak about our faith so that hands will be stretched out toward us faster than we can fill them.

the brilliant balance of the gospel that Luther so persistently expounded - "We are saved by faith alone, but not by faith which is alone.

[Boenhoeffer] had an extraordinarily even temperament, capable of ignoring anger, anxiety and discouragement. He seemed unable to despise anyone.

Accomplishments should be on the lips of all

If you take God and faith and morality out of the equation, everything inevitably falls apart.

The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

Actions must follow what one believed, else one could not claim to believe it.

The only fight which is lost is that which we give up.

By praying "his" prayers - the Psalms of the Old Testament, which Jesus prayed - we effectively piggyback on them all the way to heaven.

The line between courageous faith and foolish idealism is, almost by definition, one angstrom wide.

It must be made quite clear - terrifying though it is - that we are immediately faced with the decision: National Socialist or Christian ...

democracy without real patriotism moves toward the destruction of the ordered liberty bequeathed to us by the founders.

It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation," he said. "Posterity will huzza for us."32

so true is it that a gracious hand leads us in ways that we know not, and blesses us not only without, but even against, our plans and inclinations.

The Gospel of Christ was the most powerful sociological leveler in history,

Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.

True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light

Moujiks. Right. What's a moujik?" the Tsar asked.
"Peasants, your majesty."
"Pheasants?"
"No! Peasants.

we build him a temple, but we live in our own houses." Religion

May he at the last bind us to his triumphal carriage so that, although in bonds oppressed, we may participate in his victory!

To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for God's purposes.

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.

Things you might want to talk about in such a group?

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

A state which which includes within itself a terrorized Church has lost its most faithful servant.

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

One day we shall know and see what today we believe; one day we shall hold a service together in eternity.

Atheism tells him what he isn't, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

By the time Whitefield died in 1770, an inconceivable 80 percent of the population of the American colonies had heard him preach at least once.

She firmly believes feminism to be anti-woman because it pressures women to become more like men. Everyone

If I know something to be true, am I prepared to follow it even though it is contrary to what I want[?]

We can pray only in Jesus Christ, with whom we shall also be heard.

How can you change the world? The answer: find seven women, turn them loose, and watch Satan tremble in their presence." -

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.

True faith is not a leap in the dark; it's a leap into the light.

Taken all together, it's difficult to escape the verdict that William Wilberforce was simply the greatest social reformer in the history of the world.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Einstein himself said, You can speak of the ethical foundations of science, but you cannot speak of the scientific foundations of ethics.

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

herding cats and shoveling smoke.

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

The battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

Speak out for those who cannot speak - who in the church today realizes that this is the very least that the Bible requires of us?

Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.