Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Power of Prayer and Righteousness

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It is 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

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

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The immanent righteousness of history rewards and punishes only men’s deeds, but the eternal righteousness of God tries and judges their hearts.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Total war uses every conceivable means toward the end of national self-preservation. Everything is right and permitted that serves the cause of one’s own people.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

May we be enabled to say “No” to sin and “Yes” to the sinner.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Had Levi stayed at his post, Jesus might have been his present help in trouble, but not the Lord of his whole life. In other words Levi would never have learnt to believe.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The more thankfully we daily receive what is given to us, the more assuredly and consistently will community increase and grow from day to day as God pleases.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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