How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved. . . . God is no stop-gap; he must be recognized as the center of life, not when we are at the end of our resources.
Dietrich BonhoefferCheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
Dietrich BonhoefferOne's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.
Dietrich BonhoefferGod does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.
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