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• Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

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  Mean, Temptation, Being Free

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1997). “Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract theology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge of the subject of grace or the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact exclude any idea of discipleship whatsoever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ....Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

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  Religious, Mean, Following Christ

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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 way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.

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  Anxiety, Use, Way

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.122, 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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• 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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• 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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• In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Giving

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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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• Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

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  Patience, Art, Eye

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.4, Westminster John Knox Press

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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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• 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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• the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

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  Christian, Exercise, World

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.197, SCM Press

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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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• It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.

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  Christian, Heart, Thinking

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Bethge (1974). “Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible”, p.9, Augsburg Books

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• Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.

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  Christian, Talking, People

  "Life Together".

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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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• It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved, but rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to his Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.

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  Jesus, Son, Israel

  "Life Together".

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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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• Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to
  Jesus.

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  Jesus, Real, Evil

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The clergy must live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live in Christ, to exist for others.

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  Mean, Men, Offering

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1986). “Bonhoeffer for a New Generation”

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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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• The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.

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  Believe, Following Christ, People

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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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