Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes - Page 16

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• Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Real

  "Life Togehter".

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• Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.

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  Trying, Way, Certain

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

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  Night, Cold, Hell

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• The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.

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  Christian, Joy, Source

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.8, SCM Press

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• Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. Fanatics think that their single-minded principles qualify them to do battle with the powers of evil; but like a bull they rush at the red cloak instead of the person who is holding it; he exhausts himself and is beaten. He gets entangled in non-essentials and falls into the trap set by cleverer people.

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  Fall, Thinking, People

  "Letters and Papers from Prison (Who Stands Fast?)". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (p. 4), 1967.

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• The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth.

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  Crosses, Knows

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• We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

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  Grace, Needs, Earth

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.38, SCM Press

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• The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

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  Validation, Rejection, Doe

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• I can never know beforehand how God’s image should appear in others. That image always manifests a completely new and unique form that comes solely from God’s free and sovereign creation. To me the sight may seem strange, even ungodly. But God creates every man in the likeness of His Son, the Crucified. After all, even that image certainly looked strange and ungodly to me before I grasped it.

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  Son, Unique, Men

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• If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts... for they have already been given to another.

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  Jesus, Heart, Mirages

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility.

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  Jesus, Enemy, Cherish

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.96, SCM Press

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• With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

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  Practice, Ideas, Christianity

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

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• The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

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  War, Israel, Enemy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.96, SCM Press

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• The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.

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  Spiritual, Stress, Giving

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

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  Hero, Son, Pay

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.32, SCM Press

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• In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

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  Men, Firsts, Steps

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.22, SCM Press

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• Advent creates people, new people.

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  Healing, People, Advent

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.40, Westminster John Knox Press

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• It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ

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  Taken, Men, Soul

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1983). “The martyred Christian: 160 readings from Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Scribner

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• The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and His work become the one and only thing that is vital between us.

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  Jesus, Community, Christ

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

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• But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ--in that order.

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  Jesus, Order, Decision

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• God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

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  God, Attitude, Holiday

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

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• Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.

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  Christian, Mean, Sanctification

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.212, SCM Press

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• Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

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  God, Christian, Respect

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.150, SCM Press

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• The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.

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  Essence, Goal, Lust

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1967). “Letters and Papers from Prison”

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• Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they renounce their own righteousness too. They get no praise for their achievements or sacrifices. They cannot have righteous– ness except by hungering and thirsting for it (this applies equally to their own righteousness and to the righteousness of God on earth ), always they look forward to the future righteousness of God, but they cannot establish it for themselves. Those who follow Jesus grow hungry and thirsty on the way.

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  Jesus, Blessed, Sacrifice

  "The Cost of Discipleship".

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