Dodie Smith > Dodie's Quotes

“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”
― Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation – Intimate Reflections on Faith, Seminary, Ministry, and Writing

“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.”
― Paul Tillich, The Eternal Now

“The first duty of love is to listen.”
― Paul Tillich

“Boredom is rage spread thin”
― Paul Tillich

“The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.”
― Paul Tillich

“If Christians around the world were to suddenly renounce their personal agendas, their life goals and their aspirations, and begin responding in radical obedience to everything God showed them. the world would be turned upside down. How do we know? Because that's what first century Christians did, and the world is still talking about it.”
― Henry T. Blackaby, Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
― Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC

“When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“It is a costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“Christianity without the living Jesus Christ remains necessarily a Christianity without discipleship; and a Christianity without discipleship is always a Christianity without Jesus Christ. It is an idea, a myth.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Discipleship