Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

“A hardship mentality can make us narrow and defensive. A success and prosperity mentality can make us selfish. An attitude of thankfulness to God, for what He gives us, can make us truly generous.”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“Receiving the grace of God never means that we continue with the way things were before. It separates us from the old; it never justifies the old. It embraces the new and calls the old into question.”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“Thought If the world is the object of God’s redeeming concern, then we can hardly live as though the world is irrelevant.”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“The lie of the devil consists of this: that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without Gods word. ” —TEMPTATION”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“The true leader must always be able to disillusion.”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“Christ comes indeed, and opens up his own way, no matter whether man is ready beforehand or not. No-one can hinder his coming, but we can resist his coming in mercy. ” —ETHICS”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“God will often require quick action, but he also requires stillness and reflection.” —MEDITATING ON THE WORD”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“In the temptation of Jesus, there really remains nothing except God’s word and promise.”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“Discipline is not so much the way by which we are constrained, but the way we channel our energy in a particular direction.”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“To be in Christ ... means to be in the church.” —THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“Faith means being held captive by the sight of Jesus Christ.” —ETHICS”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“The true leader must always be able to disillusion.” —NO RUSTY SWORDS”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“By sheer grace, God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world. ” —LIFE TOGETHER”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“Remembering becomes a power in the present because the God who once acted for me is the living God who today makes me sure of what he has done.” —MEDITATING ON THE WORD”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“Daily, quiet reflection on the word of God as it applies to me ... becomes for one a point of crystallisation for everything which gives interior and exterior order to my life.” —MEDITATING ON THE WORD”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“Christ ... is truth spoken in the concrete moment, the address which puts a man in the truth before God. ” —CHRISTOLOGY”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“As evil grows through many small acts of wrongdoing, good develops as we continue to do what is right before God and others.”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“Has the fellowship served to make the individual free, strong, and mature, or has it made him weak and dependent? Has it taken him by the hand for a while in order that he may learn again to walk by himself, or has it made him uneasy and unsure?” —LIFE TOGETHER”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“Reasonable people maintain the world. Passionate people change it. And wise people guide the change process.”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“The Christian surely must be a person of passion rather than of reasonableness; of discernment rather than gullibility.”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“One is distressed by the failure of reasonable people to perceive either the depths of evil or the depths of the holy.” —ETHICS”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“We are to learn to understand ourselves now as those who have been placed on the way and no longer can do anything other than walk in it.” —MEDITATING ON THE WORD”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“The truth still remains the greatest service of love which men can show each other in the community of Christ.” —NO RUSTY SWORDS”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“Lord, help me to wait expectantly, to act purposefully, and to trust You to see me through to the end. Amen.”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“The reasons one gives for an action to others and to one’s self are certainly inadequate. One can give a reason for everything. In the last resort, one acts from a level which remains hidden from us. So one can only ask God to judge us and to forgive us.” —THE WAY TO FREEDOM”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“You are a sinner, a great, desperate sinner; now come, as the sinner that you are to God who loves you. He wants you as you are; he does not want anything from you, a sacrifice, a work; he wants you alone. ” —LIFE TOGETHER”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“Christ did not, like a moralist, love a theory of good, but he loved the real man.”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“There is no place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the inner life. Any attempt to escape from the world must sooner or later be paid for with a sinful surrender to the world.” —ETHICS”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“As the open confession of my sins to a brother insures me against self-deception, so, too, the assurance of forgiveness becomes fully certain to me only when it is spoken by a brother in the name of God. Mutual, brotherly confession is given to us by God in order that we may be sure of divine forgiveness.” —LIFE TOGETHER”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional

“9 “There are Christians who want to be more spiritual than God himself. They like to talk of battle, renunciation, suffering, and the cross, and it is almost painful to them that the holy scripture speaks not only of that, but time and again of the good fortune of the devout, the well-being of the just.” —MEDITATING ON THE WORD”
― Charles R. Ringma, Seize the Day -- with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A 365 Day Devotional