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Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend – it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.

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Deep Water, Helping, Where You Are

"The Cost of Discipleship".

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If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when he denied him: "I know not this man." Self-denial is never just a series of isolated acts of mortification or asceticism. It is not suicide, for there is an element of self-will even in that. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self denial can say is: "He leads the way, keep close to him.

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Suicide, Men, Self

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask first what they have to do with us, but what they have to do with Jesus Christ...It does not depend, therefore, on whether the Psalms express adequately that which we feel at a given moment in our heart. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.

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Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.

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Morning, Prayer, Work

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Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

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People, Waiting, Satisfied

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.6, Westminster John Knox Press

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When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely to love our neighbor.

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Responsibility, Sober, Neighbor

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Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.

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Men, Doors, Grace

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.5, SCM Press

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How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.

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Believe, Community, Obedient

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Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.

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Brother, Thinking, Keeping Quiet

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

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Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.

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Love, Christian, Dream

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

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But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.

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Christian, Father, Anxiety

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

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Tears, Trying, Gaps

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “The Way to Freedom: 1935-1939, from the Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, New York : Harper & Row

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If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?

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Different, Christianity, Garments

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The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the freewill offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Offering, Self, Giving

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Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.

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Christian, Jesus, Community

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

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The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.

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Lying, Winning, Class

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The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.

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Responsible, Whole Life, Response

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Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death.

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Christ

"Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 87, 1937.

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The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

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Prayer, School, Great Schools

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2007). “I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions”, p.54, Westminster John Knox Press

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The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Father, War, Church

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Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself.

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Spiritual, Mean, Love Is

"Life Togehter".

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When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek and find His living Word in the witness of a brother, in the mouth of man. Therefore, the Christian needs another Christian who speaks God’s Word to him. The Christ in his own heart is weaker than the Christ in the word of his brother; his own heart is uncertain, his brother’s is sure.

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Christian, Brother, Heart

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Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christian, Spiritual, Whole Life

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The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.

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Bible, Christian, Lying

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There remains an experience of incomparable value.

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Incomparable, Remains, Values

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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