Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes - Page 6

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• Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mean, Responsibility, Political

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• Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.

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  Evil, Combat, Refuse

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

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• We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God's coming at Christmas that we no longer feel the shiver of fear that God's coming should arouse in us. We are indifferent to the message, taking only the pleasant and agreeable out of it and forgetting the serious aspect, that the God of the world draws near to the people of our little earth and lays claim to us. The coming of God is truly not only glad tidings, but first of all frightening news for everyone who has a conscience.

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  Faith, Ideas, People

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.8, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

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  Grace, Repentance, Preaching

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

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• Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

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  Theologian, Seriousness, Dose

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• Because I am a Christian, therefore, every day in which I do not penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God's Word in Holy Scripture is a lost day for me. I can only move forward with certainty upon the firm ground of the Word of God. And, as a Christian, I learn to know the Holy Scriptures in no other way than by hearing the Word preached and by prayerful meditation.

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  Christian, Moving, Meditation

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, David McI. Gracie (2000). “Meditating on the Word”, p.22, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.

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  Blessing, Opportunity, Goodness

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Geffrey B. Kelly (1990). “A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Harpercollins

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• One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

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  Reality, World, Tasks

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1965). “Ethics”

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• Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.

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  Jesus, Unconditional Love, Judgement

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank and open our behaviour we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.

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  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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• A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.

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  Men, Order, People

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.17, SCM Press

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• It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.

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  Church, Tasks, Youth

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• The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

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  Church

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Geffrey B. Kelly (1990). “A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Harpercollins

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• Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

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  Battle, Weapons, Way

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Geffrey B. Kelly (1990). “A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Harpercollins

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• A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

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  Morning, Prayer, Evening

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• Who am I? this or the other?
  Am I one person today and tomorrow another?
  Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others,
  and before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling?
  Or is something within me still like a beaten army fleeing
  in disorder from a victory already achieved?
  Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.
  Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!

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  Lonely, Hypocrite, Army

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Politics are not the task of a Christian.

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  Christian, Political, Tasks

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• Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

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  Appreciation, Truth, Real

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.

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  Jesus, Suffering, Glory

  "Meditations on the Cross". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 3, 1996.

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• Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

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  Loneliness, People, Church

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

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• The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

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  Christian, Self, Humanity

  "Letters and Papers from Prison".

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• To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Suffering, Tragedy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1998). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings”

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• As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future.

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  Long, Armor, Looks

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• A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.

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  Stress, Home, Storm

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

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• Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

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  Christianity, Christ, Discipleship

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

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