Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes - Page 7

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• In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity. The world will allow itself to be subdued only by success. It is not ideas or opinions which decide, but deeds. Success alone justifies wrongs done With a frankness and off-handedness which no other earthly power could permit itself, history appeals in its own cause to the dictum that the end justifies the means The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.

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  Mean, Ideas, Done

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• It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies.
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  So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

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  Christian, Jesus, Taken

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.7, SCM Press

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• When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people.

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  People, Affected

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

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• Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

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  Time, Creative, Suffering

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• Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.

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  Christian, Mean, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.45, SCM Press

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• The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

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  Prayer, Heart, Poverty

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

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• How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved. . . . God is no stop-gap; he must be recognized as the center of life, not when we are at the end of our resources.

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  God, Use, Want

  Letters and papers from Prison, p. 311, 1996.

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• Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

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  Community, Christian Community

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• What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

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  Clever, Men, Needs

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.

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  Christian, Law, Doe

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.78, SCM Press

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• Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.

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  Pain, Grieving, Trying

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• It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

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  Gratitude, Achievement, Easy

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

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• Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

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  Believe, Obedient

  "Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Meditation and Prayer".

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• If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free.

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  Men, Discipline, Soul

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

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• A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.

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  Kings, Kingdoms, Strange

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is on the Cross: Reflections on Lent and Easter”, p.69, Westminster John Knox Press

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• If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

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  Prayer, Heart, Important

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• The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.

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  Christian, Jesus, Brother

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that
  the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.

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  Christmas, Cells, Doors

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• It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it.

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  Important, Use, Share

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

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  Peace, Eye, Perspective

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

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• Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power of him who supports them. The disciples bear the suffering laid on them only by the power of him who bears all suffering on the cross. As bearers of suffering, they stand in communion with the Crucified.

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  Broken, Support, Suffering

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• There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become truly afraid. These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ....No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian theology finds its beginnings in the miracle of miracles, that God became human.

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  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jana Riess, O. C. Dean, Jr. (2010). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”

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• Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

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  Jesus, Matter, Significance

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.16, SCM Press

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• The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.

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  Men, Following Christ, Grace

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• Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

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  Faith, Believe, Obedience

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