Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes - Page 9

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• The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Insecurity

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• God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And by judging us, he cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with his grace and love. He makes us happy as only children can be happy.

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  Children, Grace, Only Child

  "A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer".

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• The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

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  Wisdom, Heart, Mean

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• He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.

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  Community, Brethren

  "From Brokenness to Community". Book by Jean Vanier, 1992, 1992.

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• If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

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  God, Spiritual, Jobs

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• If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?

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  Jesus, Men, Helping

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Edwin Hanton Robertson (1973). “True patriotism; 1939-45: from the collected works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”

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• It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

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  Marriage, Inspirational Marriage, Marriage Problems

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.7, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

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  Festivals, Supreme

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.141, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.

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  Life, Christian, Mouths

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

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• It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.

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  World, Have Faith, This World

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.137, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Once again, Jesus calls those who follow him to share his passion.

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  Jesus, Passion, Share

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.94, SCM Press

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• If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He will see to it that they are added unto us. If we follow Jesus and look only to His righteousness, we are in his hands and under the protection of Him and His Father. And if we are in communion with the Father, nought can harm us. God will help us in the hour of need, and He knows our needs.

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  Jesus, Father, Hands

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• Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.

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  Christian, Strong, Community

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

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• Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

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  Littles, Beloved, Persons

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.21, SCM Press

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• Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.

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  Jesus, Letters, Scripture

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• Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life.

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  Mother, Destruction, Womb

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.

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  Reality

  "The Cost of Discipleship".

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• The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is to this image that the life of the disciples must be conformed; in other words, they must be conformed to his death (Phil 3.10, Rom 6.4) The Christian life is a life of crucifixion (Gal 2.19) In baptism the form of Christ's death is impressed upon his own. They are dead to the flesh and to sin, they are dead to the world, and the world is dead to them (Gal 6.14). Anybody living in the strength of Christ's baptism lives in the strength of Christ's death.

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  Christian, Baptism, World

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• It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

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  Men, Suffering, Obedience

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• The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

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  Christian, Prayer, Children

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.111, SCM Press

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• God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.

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  New Beginnings, Past, People

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2007). “I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions”, p.2, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

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  Prayer, Vanity, Odds

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

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• As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards our enemy. There is no deeper distress to be found in the world, no pain more bitter than our enemy's. Nowhere is service more necessary or more blessed than when we serve our enemies.

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  Brother, Pain, Blessed

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.98, SCM Press

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• grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

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  Law, Grace, Cost

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.12, SCM Press

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• The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

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  Church, Ordinary, Helping

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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