A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.
Dietrich BonhoefferRead
When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Deeply impactful ideas compel individuals to share them with others.
This quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer highlights the fundamental nature of impactful communication and the human propensity to share transformative experiences. When individuals internalize significant words or messages, they feel a moral or ethical duty to pass those insights on, creating a ripple effect of understanding and influence within their communities.
Themes
CommunicationImpactSharingTransformationInfluence
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech, one might quote this to emphasize the power of impactful ideas.
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Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then letβs see something to prove it.
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It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ
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...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all.
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Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.
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