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• The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

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  Church, Wheels, Victim

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1995). “Selected Writings”, HarperCollins

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• Each morning is a new beginning of our life. Each day is a finished whole. The present day marks the boundary of our cares and concerns. It is long enough to find God or lose Him, to keep faith or fall into disgrace.

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  Morning, Fall, New Beginnings

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, David McI. Gracie (2000). “Meditating on the Word”, p.28, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.

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  Jesus, Real, Responsibility

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.34, Westminster John Knox Press

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• No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.

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  Sacrifice, Enemy, Lovers

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

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• To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's hand alone, we shall be protected even in the greatest danger; and from our gratitude for such protection ever new readiness surely arises for the final call

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  Gratitude, Lying, Hands

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• There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.

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  Fleeing, World, Way

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

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  Prayer, Vanity, Odds

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2008). “Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 1928-1931”

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• ...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all.

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  Christmas, Eye, Dark

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

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• While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.

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  Real, People, Evil

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• Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

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  Men, Action, Spontaneous

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.108, SCM Press

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• Only the suffering God can help.

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  Suffering, Helping

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.134, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

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  Desire, Sake, Poverty

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.77, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?

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  Littles, Little Things, Christian Thanksgiving

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.17, SCM Press

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• The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

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  Christian, Encounters, World

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.

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  Doe, Praying, Pastor

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• God is not free from human beings but for them.

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  Humans, Human Beings

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• Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

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  Christian, Self, Discipline

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• And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.

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  Successful, Enthusiasm, Causes

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1995). “Selected Writings”, HarperCollins

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• To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

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  Reality, Significant, Factual

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

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  Jesus, Brethren

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.82, SCM Press

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• What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

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  Jesus, Self Love, Suffering

  "Encountering the Extraordinary". Essay by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1934), published in "Meditations on the Cross" edited by Manfred Weber and translated by Douglas W. Scott (p. 1), 1998.

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• Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.

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  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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

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• In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Giving

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• Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to
  Jesus.

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  Jesus, Real, Evil

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.

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  People, Path, Claims

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

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