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But Brahms himself was extremely self-critical; he was always pruning and polishing his works.


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DIETRICH BONHOEFFER We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Maundy Thursday Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945 What do I mean by "interpr...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 It is the fellowship of the Cro...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
MARLENE DIETRICH Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast
MARLENE DIETRICH Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being a...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER It is not that God's help and presence must still be proved in our life; rather God's presence and h...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The most experienced psychologist or observer of human nature knows infinitely less of the human hea...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER We all know how quick David can be, when he is fully motivated. He still has it.
DIETRICH MATESCHITZ When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER What determines our brotherhood is what that man is by reason of Christ. Our community with one anot...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The more we have known of the really good things, the more insipid the thin lemonade of later litera...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt th...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich with...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of dai...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it co...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER [...]we must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inade...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Just as Christians should not be constantly feeling the pulse of their spiritual life, so too the Ch...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER In the Christian community thankfulness is just what it is anywhere else in the Christian life. Only...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The Christian, however, must bear the burden of a brother. He must suffer and endure the brother. It...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER God did not make this person as I would have made him. He did not give him to me as a brother for me...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want t...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy a...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our pa...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER God has prepared for Himself one great song of praise throughout eternity, and those who enter the c...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowshi...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not sma...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER It is only the cynic who claims “to speak the truth” at all times and in all places to all men i...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER There is a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person ha...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot clai...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the si...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stand...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's s...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division w...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit wi...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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