While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
Dietrich Bonhoeffergrace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
Dietrich BonhoefferWe must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.
Dietrich BonhoefferSo the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
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