Dietrich Bonhoeffer Famous Quotes
"If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure."
"Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering."
"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."
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.
To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
"If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction."
"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 his enemy."
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotations
"Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it cant be taken on its own merits."
Dan Barker
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb
What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.
Judy Grahn
"Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time."
Haniel Long
"Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education."
Burk Hudson
"Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold."
Ecclesiasticus
"Let us be very careful not to fall into the trap of the world. The world views things only relative to man and to self. The Word of God views things relative to the Father, Son, and Spirit. Mankind is not the center of all things. No matter how great anyone's name might become, it is still far behind His. Our name comes from His life the name of our Lord comes from the resurrection--the event unique to Him. The world has a problem it seeks to honor, uphold, exonerate and generally praise itself. Our place and the place of the entire world system is to praise and exalt God. When people of the Bible caught a glimpse of Him, their lives were changed. Perhaps our lives remain stagnate because we do not spend enough time looking at Him."
Roger Anderson
The door to opportunity is always labeled 'push'.
Unknown
"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It matters not whether you win or lose what matters is whether I win or lose.
Darrin Weinberg