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• The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

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  Goal, Lust, Purity

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• Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.

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  Simple, Obedience, Obedience To God

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• It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!

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  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

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  Schedules, Assuming, Ready

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• The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

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  Christian, Brother, Mean

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.24, SCM Press

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• Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

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  Jesus, Two, Trying

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• Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

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  Love Is, Judging Yourself, Evil

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.129, SCM Press

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• We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

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  Inspiring, Faith, Inspiration

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.76, SCM Press

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• Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

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  Godly, Following Christ, Christianity

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

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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.

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  Lying, Believe, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1997). “Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

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  Godly, Men, Christ

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

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• Cheap grace is the idea that "grace" did it all for me so I do not need to change my lifestyle. The believer who accepts the idea of "cheap grace" thinks he can continue to live like the rest of the world. Instead of following Christ in a radical way, the Christian lost in cheap grace thinks he can simply enjoy the consolations of his grace.

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  Christian, Thinking, Following Christ

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• The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity, or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil.

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  Christian, Light, Justice

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.

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  Valentines Day, Hatred, Needs

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

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• We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

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  Light, People, Empathy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

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  Religious, Taken, People

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• God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

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  Pain, Real, Godly

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• The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods . . . . His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather than inflict it on others. They maintain fellowship where others would break it off. They renounce hatred and wrong. In so doing they overcome evil with good, and establish the peace of God in the midst of a world of war and hate.

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  Peace, Hate, War

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• The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

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  Long, Decision, Eternity

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.159, SCM Press

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• But they all stood beneath the cross, enemies and believers, doubters and cowards, revilers and devoted followers. His prayer, in that hour, and his forgiveness, was meant for them all, and for all their sins. The mercy and love of God are at work even in the midst of his enemies. It is the same Jesus Christ, who of his grace calls us to follow him, and whose grace saves the murderer who mocks him on the cross in his last hour.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.34, SCM Press

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• If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .

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  Uplifting, Christian, Mean

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• Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

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  Music, Character, Joy

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• Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.

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  Life, Hands, Needs

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• Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.

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  Jesus, Men, Call Me

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

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  Sad, Running, Depressing

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