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• Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

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  Joy, Draws, Unfathomable

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• Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in God's presence and to be with God alone. It means not grieving God, but rejoicing in God simply because it is God who is involved, and because we are permitted to know and have God, and to speak with and live with God.

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  Mean, Thinking, Grieving

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• Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

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  Grace, Discipleship, Christian Discipleship

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, SCM Press

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• Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.

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  Christian, Listening, Ministry

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

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• If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

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  Humility, Way, Sin

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.74, SCM Press

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• The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth.

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  Christian, Needs, Helping

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.12, SCM Press

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• Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends

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  Tree, Growth, Fruits Of The Spirit

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.217, SCM Press

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• Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. Only those whose hearts are undefiled by their own evil--and by their own virtues too. The pure in heart have a child-like simplicity like Adam before the fall, innocent alike of good and evil: their hearts are not ruled by their conscience, but by the will of Jesus.

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  Jesus, Children, Fall

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• A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

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  Christian, Suffering, World

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• If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. ... "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves ... and take up their cross.

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  Jesus, Self, Followers

  "Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 85, 1937.

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• Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.

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  Christian, Prayer, Character

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.110, SCM Press

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• It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty.

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  Christian, Prayer, Knowing

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.110, SCM Press

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• When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.

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  Christian, Giving Up, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.22, SCM Press

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• We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

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  Gratitude, Giving, Thankfulness

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

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• We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

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  Spiritual, Sleep, Should Have

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

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• It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.

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  Song, Voice, Singing

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.45, SCM Press

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• The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.

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  Reality, Men, Sight

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1955). “Ethics”, SCM Press

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• You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

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  Obedience, Obeying

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

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• The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

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  Happy Life, Men, Christ

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

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• Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic.

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  Trying, Relevant, Relevance

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

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• The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.

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  Crush, Men, Hands

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• To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'

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  Self, Denial, Asceticism

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.43, SCM Press

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• Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God's question and call.

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  Sacrifice, Answers, Principles

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “I Loved this People: Testimonies of Responsibility”, London : S.P.C.K.

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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.

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  Men, Grace, Justified

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.10, SCM Press

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• So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

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  Jesus, Home, Uncomfortable Feeling

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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