Quote of the Week
Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic (self evident; obvious). . . Do not defend God’s Word, but testify to it . . . Trust to the Word.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic (self evident; obvious). . . Do not defend God’s Word, but testify to it . . . Trust to the Word.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(On the topic of Giving)
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words,’ if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charities expenditure excludes them.
C. S. Lewis – Mere Christianity
Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1928
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