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• Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

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  Patience, Art, Eye

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.4, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

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  Seriousness, Absolutes

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.141, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.

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  Christian, Heart, Thinking

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Bethge (1974). “Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible”, p.9, Augsburg Books

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• When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.

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  Prayer, Praying, Christ

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Bethge (1974). “Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible”, p.11, Augsburg Books

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• Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

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  Jesus, Grace, Christ

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, SCM Press

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• Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods.

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  Men, Grace, Treasure

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, SCM Press

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• The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.

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  Believe, Following Christ, People

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• There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.

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  Safety, Venture, Way

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Geffrey B. Kelly (1990). “A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Harpercollins

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• Only in Jesus are we able to pray, and with Him we also know that we shall be heard.

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  Jesus, Able, Praying

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Bethge (1974). “Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible”, p.11, Augsburg Books

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• God wants to see human beings, not ghosts who shun the world. . . . Our marriage must be a 'yes' to God's earth. It must strengthen our resolve to do and accomplish something on earth. I fear that Christians who venture to stand on earth on only one leg will stand in heaven on only one leg too.

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  Christian, Heaven, World

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• The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.

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  Brethren

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.75, SCM Press

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• Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

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  Empty, Lost, Time Left

  LIFE magazine, April 22, 1957.

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• It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved, but rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to his Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.

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  Jesus, Son, Israel

  "Life Together".

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• Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

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  People, Quality, Claims

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

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  Love, Envy, Judging

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

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  Redemption, World, Needs

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• Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

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  Mean, Temptation, Being Free

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1997). “Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet.

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  Want, Neighbor, Goodness

  "Selected Writings".

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• The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The clergy must live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live in Christ, to exist for others.

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  Mean, Men, Offering

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1986). “Bonhoeffer for a New Generation”

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• It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

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  Blessed, Temptation, Together

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• One who loves his community destroys community; one who loves its members builds community.

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  Community, Members

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• The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These few will greatly enjoy the divine inspiration and will be prepared to stand for the dignity of Man and true freedom and to keep the Law of God, even of it means martyrdom or death.

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  Inspiration, Mean, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.29, SCM Press

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• The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

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  Prayer, Simple, Praying

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.35, SCM Press

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• What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.

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  Whole

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• It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

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  Christian, Community, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.10, SCM Press

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