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• Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Answers, Helping

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• It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

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  Strong, People, Opinion

  "Letters and Papers from Prison: New edition, with a new introduction by Samuel Wells".

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• Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

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  Silence, Speech

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Geffrey B. Kelly (1990). “A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Harpercollins

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• Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Strong, Christ

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, p.61, Fortress Press

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• A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.

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  Jesus, Real, Responsibility

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.34, Westminster John Knox Press

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• To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's hand alone, we shall be protected even in the greatest danger; and from our gratitude for such protection ever new readiness surely arises for the final call

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  Gratitude, Lying, Hands

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• No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.

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  Sacrifice, Enemy, Lovers

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

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• While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

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  Tasks, Holy, Knows

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.30, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.

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  Bible, Christian, Lying

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• The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

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  Church, Wheels, Victim

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1995). “Selected Writings”, HarperCollins

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• Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

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  Shots, Certain, Heresy

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• We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.

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  People, Path, Claims

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

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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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• It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. 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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• The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

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  War, Israel, Enemy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.96, SCM Press

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• My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

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  Past, Forgiving, Life Is

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.17, SCM Press

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• And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.

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  Successful, Enthusiasm, Causes

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1995). “Selected Writings”, HarperCollins

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• While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.

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  Real, People, Evil

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• Only the suffering God can help.

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  Suffering, Helping

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.134, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

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  Jesus, Brethren

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.82, SCM Press

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• There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.

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  Sin, Unbelief

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• The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.

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  Christian, Joy, Source

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.8, SCM Press

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• Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

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  Men, Action, Spontaneous

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.108, SCM Press

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• Each morning is a new beginning of our life. Each day is a finished whole. The present day marks the boundary of our cares and concerns. It is long enough to find God or lose Him, to keep faith or fall into disgrace.

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  Morning, Fall, New Beginnings

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, David McI. Gracie (2000). “Meditating on the Word”, p.28, Rowman & Littlefield

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• How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?

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  Littles, Little Things, Christian Thanksgiving

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

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