Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

It was the error of Israel to put the law in God’s place, to make the law their God and their God a law.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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• Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.

  

  T-Pain
  • Time
  • Work
  • Love

• I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.

  

  Kat Graham
  • More
  • Still
  • Brown

• This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Me

• My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Everything
  • Canvas
  • Go

• It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Different
  • Place
  • Boston

• Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It's for everyone; it's about a community, it's about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills - not just acting but all the other sides - working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Community
  • Dance

• Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • America

• Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Accomplishment
  • Desires

• The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Cost

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Believe
  • America
  • Responsibility

• I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Character
  • Think
  • Fearless

• The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Up
  • Want

• When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Parents

• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Protect
  • Wants

• Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Looking

• I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • God
  • Believe
  • Song

• Who do I belong to? How come I mortgaged my being till I don't belong to myself? How come I sold my blood? And who now owns my indecisions, my hands, my private pain, my pride?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Pain
  • Pride
  • Blood

• God blesses him who helps his brother.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Brother
  • Him

• Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

  

  Daniel Harvey Hill
  • God
  • Fear
  • Encouragement

• Dear God, Please teach me to forgive myself and others. Remove the walls that keep love out, behind which I am a prisoner. Heal my guilt and remove my anger, that I might be reborn. Make gentle my heart and strong my spirit and show me how to love. Please show me how to honor myself. Please teach me how to listen to myself. "Please program my mind to know itself, that I might at last be free. Teach me to appreciate your spirit that lives within me. Show me how to be good to myself, that I might know more fully the goodness of life. Amen.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Love
  • Spirit

• It was the error of Israel to put the law in God’s place, to make the law their God and their God a law.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • God
  • Law