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We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ideas, Divine, Should

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God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

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Goal, End Of Life, Ends

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

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Shots, Certain, Heresy

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In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.

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Jesus, Christ, Eternity

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.11, SCM Press

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Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Hands, Desire, Sake

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

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Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.

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Christian, Recovery, Church

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1996). “Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible”, Fortress Pr

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Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it is a brief, single encounter or the daily fellowship of years, Christian community is only this. We belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ.

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Christian, Jesus, Mean

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

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If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

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Thanksgiving, Self, Desire

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.115, SCM Press

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As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.

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Forgiving, May, Fellowship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.79, SCM Press

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Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing.

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Blessed, Blessing, Hands

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

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...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a thorn but as a precious gift deep within, a hidden treasure of which one can always be certain.

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Gratitude, Memories, Past

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There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sin, Unbelief

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True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers, whether briefly or lenghtily, in the Litany of the Church, or with the sigh of one who knows not what he should pray for. True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs.

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Prayer, Father, Faithful

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

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Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world.

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Christian, Fall, Fate

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Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.

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Jesus, Suffering, Christ

"The Cost of Discipleship (Discipleship and the Cross)". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (p. 84), 1937.

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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

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Community, Done, Christ

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.14, SCM Press

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We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know.

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Unsolved Problems, Knows

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2007). “I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions”, p.253, Westminster John Knox Press

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By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.

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Christian, Jesus, Self

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.92, SCM Press

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We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.

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God, Problem, Should

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The cross is suffering with Christ.

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Suffering, Christ, Crosses

"The Cost of Discipleship (Discipleship and the Cross)". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (p. 86), 1937.

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Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.

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Christian, Reality, Brotherhood

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.18, SCM Press

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Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one possibility: simple surrender and obedience - not interpreting or applying it, but doing and obeying it. That is the only way to hear his words. He does not mean for us to discuss it as an ideal. He really means for us to get on with it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus, Mean, Simple

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Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that both of us can never live by our own words and deeds, but only by that one Word and deed that really binds us together, the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ? The bright day of Christian community dawns wherever the early morning mists of dreamy visions are lifting

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Christian, Jesus, Morning

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Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them

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Men, Two, Knowing

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1959). “Creation and fall: a theological interpretation of Genesis 1-3”

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And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Life Changing, World, Might

"The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer".

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Born: February 4, 1906
Died: April 9, 1945
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