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• It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.

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  Children, Parent, Should

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only service is always to have to 'offer' something when they are together with other people. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking. Many people seek a sympathetic ear and do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking even when they should be listening.

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  Christian, Brother, Thinking

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

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• Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

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  Infinite, Christianity, Worthless

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

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• A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.

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  Generations, Next, Righteous

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• The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.

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  Sin, Isolated, Persons

  "Life Together".

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• The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

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  Life, Happiness, Success

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• We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Letters and Papers from Prison".

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• Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.

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  Justice, Compromise, Christ

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• When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me

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  Thinking, Here And Now

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• The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

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  Mean, Men, Church

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• The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.

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  Listening, Firsts

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

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• I believe that God both wills and is able to bring good out of everything, even the worst... I believe that even our mistakes and wrongdoing are not fruitless.

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  Mistake, Believe, Able

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• There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

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  Journey, Traveler

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• God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.

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  Emotion

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.15, SCM Press

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• It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

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  God, Christian, Spiritual Wisdom

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

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  Self, Judging, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.70, SCM Press

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• Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

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  Love Is, Judging Yourself, Judging Others

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

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• Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

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  Faithful, Daily Life, Great Things

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.67, SCM Press

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• Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.

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  Mean, Expectations, Pants

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• God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises.

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  Giving, Promise, Doe

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Clyde E. Fant (1975). “Bonhoeffer: worldly preaching”

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• In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

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  Inspirational, Life, Thank You

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

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• Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will occur along life's way and all that is required is the willingness to act when the time comes. The needs of the neighbor, especially those of the weak and downtrodden, the victimized and the persecuted, the ill and the lonely, will become abundantly evident.

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  Christian, Lonely, Opportunity

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• The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

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  Suffering, Earth, Christ

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• He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.

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  Men, Doe, Faces

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• We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.

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  Mirrors, Order, Silence

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, David McI. Gracie (2000). “Meditating on the Word”, p.50, Rowman & Littlefield

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