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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Wedding

1906–1945 Germany

← All quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

Discipleship (1937)

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

Meditations on the Cross (1996)

By our enemies Jesus means those who are quite intractable and utterly unresponsive to our love.

Discipleship (1937)

Love for the sinner is ominously close to love of the sin. But the love of Christ for the sinner in itself is the condemnation of sin.

Discipleship (1937)

Catholic moral theology ... eliminates the unnaturalness of contraception, but replaces this with the unnaturalness of a marriage without bodily communion.

Ethics (1943)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.