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• After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing, Lord." How could he when he knows that despite hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger, the Lord is always at his side?

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  Jesus, Following Christ, Long

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

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  Song, Want, Facts

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.43, SCM Press

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• Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Decision, Action

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.166, SCM Press

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• Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy...He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone.

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  Christian, Lying, Real

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• The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

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  Differences, Silence, Community

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

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• The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind

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  Morning, Light, Church

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.27, SCM Press

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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, Foe, Thick

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

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• The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies

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  Enemy, Kingdoms, Midst

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

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• In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.

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  Sacrifice, Years, Self

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge.

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  Men, Origin Of Life, Judging

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

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  Worry, New Day, Anxiety

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• Only what is essential must be said.

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  Essentials, Said

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• Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

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  Hero, Worship, Christ

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• The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

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  Prayer, Father, Heart

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

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• If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

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  Jesus, Believe, Firsts

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.24, SCM Press

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• Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?

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  Enemy, Midst

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, SCM Press

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• God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

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  Goal, End Of Life, Ends

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.

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  Jesus, Wish, Heal

  "The Cost of Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Preface), as translated by Barbara Green and Reihhard Krauss, 1937.

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• What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

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  Grateful, Littles, Unhappiness

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• Every call of Christ leads into death.

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  Christ

  "Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 88, 1937.

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• That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.

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  Jesus, Important, Facts

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• Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share of suffering and rejection. But each has a different share: some God deems worthy of the highest form of suffering, and gives them the grace of martyrdom, while others he does not allow to be tempted above that which they are able to bear. But it is the one and the same cross in every case.

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  Christian, Jesus, Giving

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

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• ...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all.

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  Christmas, Eye, Dark

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

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• A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.

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  Jesus, Community

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.70, SCM Press

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• The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.

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  Morning, Prayer, Order

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Bethge (1974). “Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible”, p.64, Augsburg Books

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