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Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows. — Marlene Dietrich

The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman
any woman
with beautiful legs. — Marlene Dietrich

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone. — Marlene Dietrich

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises ... — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life. — Marlene Dietrich

The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for. — Albert Dietrich

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth. — Dita Von Teese

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only the suffering God can help. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Why does the Old Testament law never punish anyone by depriving him of his freedom? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I think that even in this place we ought to live as if we had no wishes and no future, and just be our true selves. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Your daughter is your child for life. — Marlene Dietrich

Habit: Often mistaken for love. — Marlene Dietrich

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms. — Marlene Dietrich

We have been silent witnesses to — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ ... — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all. — Marlene Dietrich

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. Dietrich Bonhoeffer — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Whoever despises another human being will never be able to make anything of him. Nothing of what we despise in another is itself foreign to us. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success. — Marlene Dietrich

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves. — Marlene Dietrich

The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only when Christian faith in God is lost do people feel compelled to make use of all means - even criminal - to force the victory of their cause. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. — Marlene Dietrich

Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Suffering means being cut off from God. Therefore those who live in communion with him cannot really suffer. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The more I begin to love the commandments of God in creation and word, the more present they will be for me in every hour. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now. — Marlene Dietrich

Nothing can be more cruel than that leniency which abandons others to their sin. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor
is that of accomplices in crime — Marlene Dietrich

Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sex is much better with a woman,
but then one can't live with a woman — Marlene Dietrich

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret. — Marlene Dietrich

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it. — Dietrich Von Hildebrand

God is not free from human beings but for them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face. — Marlene Dietrich

Since the appearance of Christ, ethics can be concerned with only one thing: to partake in the reality of the fulfilled will of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich. — Jerry Hall

Through the life and death of Jesus Christ, history becomes not the transient bearer of eternal values but, for the first time, thoroughly temporal. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbor, for that is where God comes to you. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. — Dietrich Von Hildebrand

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. — Marlene Dietrich

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The work is the most important thing. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is never in the world in any way except in his absolute transcendence of it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created. — Marlene Dietrich

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them. — Marlene Dietrich

One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ ... than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office — Dietrich Von Hildebrand

it is not our will but God's will alone that matters. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history ... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich would never do that — Marlene Dietrich

The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sex is essentially deep. We become what we do with our bodies, and there is no deeper act than sex. — Dietrich Von Hildebrand