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• The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Morning, Light, Church

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.27, SCM Press

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• So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

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  Christian, Foe, Thick

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

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• Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

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  Hero, Worship, Christ

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• Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract theology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge of the subject of grace or the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact exclude any idea of discipleship whatsoever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ....Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

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  Religious, Mean, Following Christ

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• A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.

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  Jesus, Community

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.70, SCM Press

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• That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.

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  Jesus, Important, Facts

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• The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

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  Prayer, Father, Heart

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.111, SCM Press

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• Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share of suffering and rejection. But each has a different share: some God deems worthy of the highest form of suffering, and gives them the grace of martyrdom, while others he does not allow to be tempted above that which they are able to bear. But it is the one and the same cross in every case.

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  Christian, Jesus, Giving

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.44, SCM Press

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• It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

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  Strong, Men, Issues

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• Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

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  Silence, Speech

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

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• the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

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  Christian, Exercise, World

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.197, SCM Press

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• Every call of Christ leads into death.

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  Christ

  "Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 88, 1937.

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• The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.

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  Morning, Prayer, Order

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Bethge (1974). “Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible”, p.64, Augsburg Books

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• Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Strong, Christ

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, p.61, Fortress Press

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• The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.

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  Jesus, Law, Evil

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.91, SCM Press

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• Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy...He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone.

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  Christian, Lying, Real

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• Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Answers, Helping

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• God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.

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  Christmas, Men, Light

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.5, Westminster John Knox Press

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• After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing, Lord." How could he when he knows that despite hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger, the Lord is always at his side?

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  Jesus, Following Christ, Long

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

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  Strong, People, Opinion

  "Letters and Papers from Prison: New edition, with a new introduction by Samuel Wells".

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• While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

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  Tasks, Holy, Knows

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.30, Westminster John Knox Press

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• My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

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  Past, Forgiving, Life Is

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.17, SCM Press

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• The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

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  Differences, Silence, Community

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

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• The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

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  Song, Want, Facts

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.43, SCM Press

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• Only what is essential must be said.

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  Essentials, Said

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