Quotes About Bonhoeffer Evil

#1. Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.

Gustav Heinemann

#2. He who cannot serve cannot lead. It is by being a servant that you recognize that followers also have needs. True leaders are service oriented!

Israelmore Ayivor

#3. Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#4. As a CEO, how do you know you are investing in technology that supports productivity?

Shawn Casemore

#5. If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#6. Silence in the face of evil is evil itself: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#7. The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus' hands.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#8. All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.

Sarah Dessen

#9. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#10. Not so easy, Mr Lennon. Even if you try.

Isaac Marion

#11. Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#12. They believe that a good intention already means a new beginning; they believe that on their own they can make a new start whenever they want. But that is an evil illusion: only God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#13. There's a difference between hearing people and listening to them.

John C. Maxwell

#14. The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#15. In particular, our church will have to confront the vices of hubris, the worship of power, envy, and illusionism[28] as the roots of all evil. It will have to speak of moderation, authenticity, trust, faithfulness, steadfastness, patience, discipline, humility, modesty, contentment.[

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#16. There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#17. To me, when you're at a hotel and your home environment is ultimately dictated by somebody else, I always find that a little bit oppressive and scary in a way.

Matt Bomer

#18. While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#19. Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to
Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#20. A shaking of heads, perhaps even an evil laugh, must go through our old, smart, experienced, self-assured world, when it hears the call of salvation of believing Christians: "For a child has been born for us, a son given to us."5 Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#21. Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words..

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#22. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.2

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#23. In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#24. By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#25. He's a lawyer in Atlanta, and he's very active in his church," Mrs. Bennet said. "If that's not the description of a man looking for a wife, I don't know what is.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#26. Every man was created a one- and- only individual, as a person with a specific gift

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