Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes - Page 5

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• There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God's commandment. Wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of almighty God. Not trying to direct it for selfish purposes. Battles are won not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads to the cross.

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  Selfish, Mean, Destiny

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• A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.

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  People, Community, Persons

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• Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love.

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  Christian, Hatred, Enemy

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

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• Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

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  Desire, Doe, Bread

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.51, SCM Press

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• time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

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  Valuable, Valuable Things, Irrevocable

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

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• The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

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  Christian, Community, Church

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2013). “Letters to London: Bonhoeffer’s previously unpublished correspondence with Ernst Cromwell, 1935-36”, p.93, SPCK

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• A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.

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  Christian, Fellowship, Members

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.65, SCM Press

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• Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.

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  Gratitude, Wish, Life Is

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• Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.

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  Men, Mercy Of God, Mercy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

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• One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one’s own strength, one has to inquire of him. Only if we seek him, will he answer us.

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  Book, Thinking, Answers

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• I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith.

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  Mean, Thinking, Suffering

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2018). “Letters and Papers from Prison: New edition, with a new introduction by Samuel Wells”, p.137, SCM Press

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• In the first place, the church can ask the state whether its actions are legitimate and in accordance with its character as state, i.e., it can throw the state back on its responsibilities. Secondly, it can aid the victims of state action. The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering of society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community. The third possibility is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

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  Christian, Responsibility, Character

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• And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is.

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  Jesus, Heart, Simple

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.120, SCM Press

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• A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self.

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  Children, Father, Struggle

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• It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.

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  Real, Liars, Lying

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• The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.

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  Soul, Looks, Imperfect

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• On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he left, he said to another prisoner, This is the end - but for me, the beginning - of life. He was hanged the next day, less than a week before the Allies reached the camp.

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  Life, Sunday, Two

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• The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.

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  Honor, Suffering, Lord

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• I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

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  Brother, Hate, Matter

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.65, SCM Press

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• A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

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  Faith, Atheist, Godly

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• Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

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  Gratitude, Memories, Being Thankful

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.

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  Love, Christian, Listening

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

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• Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.

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  Prayer, Heart, Mean

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• Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.

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  Friday, Easter, Fate

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, l honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger; whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high; whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory of God precisely in his lowliness.

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  Letting Go, Children, Vanity

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.26, Westminster John Knox Press

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