“So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer , book The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

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German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906–1945

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