Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes - Page 11

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• 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.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Struggle, Done, Flesh

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.116, SCM Press

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• Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.

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  Christian, Talking, People

  "Life Together".

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• The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

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  Worry, New Day, Anxiety

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• There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

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  Kindness, Religion, Sin

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• The love for our enemies takes us along the way of the cross and into fellowship with the Crucified. The more we are driven along this road, the more certain is the victory of love over the enemy's hatred. For then it is not the disciple's own love, but the love of Jesus Christ alone, who for the sake of his enemies went to the cross and prayed for them as he hung there.

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  Jesus, Hatred, Enemy

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

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• The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

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  Essence, Grace, Discipleship

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.3, SCM Press

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• Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Decision, Action

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.166, SCM Press

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• Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

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  Prayer, Community, Baths

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Peter Frick (2010). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Meditation and Prayer”, p.17, Liturgical Press

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• The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

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  Men, Reason Why, Incarnation

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.81, SCM Press

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• The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world

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  Real, Evil, Guilt

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• In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.

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  Sacrifice, Years, Self

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

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  Holiday, Meals, Calling

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.51, SCM Press

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• Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.

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  Marriage, Journey, Joy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.6, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.

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  Anxiety, Use, Way

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.122, SCM Press

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• The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies

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  Enemy, Kingdoms, Midst

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.7, SCM Press

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• What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

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  Grateful, Littles, Unhappiness

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• Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

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  Men, Christ, Discipleship

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• The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

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  Hope, Inspiration, Future

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• Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

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  Vanity, Self, Profound

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.58, SCM Press

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• If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

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  Jesus, Believe, Firsts

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.24, SCM Press

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• The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist.

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  Artist, Today, Century

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• Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

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  Believe, Men, Obedience

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.23, SCM Press

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• Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

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  Men, Order, Law

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Johann Christoph Hampe (1977). “Prayers from prison: prayers and poems”, Not Avail

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• Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?

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  Enemy, Midst

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, SCM Press

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• Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.

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  Jesus, Wish, Heal

  "The Cost of Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Preface), as translated by Barbara Green and Reihhard Krauss, 1937.

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