Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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  1. Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ..each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add... - Tennessee Williams

  2. Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. - Jane Austen

  3. How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves. - Karen Quan

  4. If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  5. Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain. - JeanJacques Rousseau

More Quotes By Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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  2. When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

  3. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

  4. As you gave the ring to one another and have now received it a 2nd time from the hand of the pastor, so love comes from you, but marriage from above, from God. As high as God is above man, so high are the sanctity,...

  5. Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do harm to himself and to the community. Alone you stood before God when he called you; alone you had to answer that call;...

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