Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes - Page 11

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• Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

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  Vanity, Self, Profound

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.58, SCM Press

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• Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

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  Redemption, World, Needs

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• Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

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  Men, Christ, Discipleship

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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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• 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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• 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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• The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.

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  Jesus, Law, Evil

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.91, SCM Press

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• The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

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  Hope, Inspiration, Future

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• It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

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  Christian, Community, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.10, SCM Press

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• The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world

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  Real, Evil, Guilt

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• The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

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  Essence, Grace, Discipleship

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.3, SCM Press

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• God wants to see human beings, not ghosts who shun the world. . . . Our marriage must be a 'yes' to God's earth. It must strengthen our resolve to do and accomplish something on earth. I fear that Christians who venture to stand on earth on only one leg will stand in heaven on only one leg too.

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  Christian, Heaven, World

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• There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.

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  Fleeing, World, Way

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• One who loves his community destroys community; one who loves its members builds community.

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  Community, Members

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• The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

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  Men, Reason Why, Incarnation

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.81, SCM Press

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• When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

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  Struggle, Done, Flesh

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.116, SCM Press

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• Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

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  Holiday, Meals, Calling

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.51, SCM Press

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• Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

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  Believe, Men, Obedience

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.23, SCM Press

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• Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

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  Prayer, Community, Baths

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Peter Frick (2010). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Meditation and Prayer”, p.17, Liturgical Press

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• God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.

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  Christmas, Men, Light

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.5, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

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  People, Quality, Claims

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.

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  Marriage, Journey, Joy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.6, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

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  Strong, Men, Issues

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• The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist.

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  Artist, Today, Century

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• The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These few will greatly enjoy the divine inspiration and will be prepared to stand for the dignity of Man and true freedom and to keep the Law of God, even of it means martyrdom or death.

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  Inspiration, Mean, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.29, SCM Press

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