Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

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The lack of mystery in our modern life is our downfall and our poverty. A human life is worth as much as the respect it — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christm — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
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 Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finishe — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
The mysterious, invisible authority of the divine child over human hearts is more solidly grounded then the visible and — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
God travels wonderful ways with human beings, but he does not comply with the views and opinions of people. God does not — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be op — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
Advent creates people, new people. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility f — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wai — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas