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Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

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Christian, Self, Discipline

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But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ--in that order.

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Jesus, Order, Decision

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A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.

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Doe, Praying, Pastor

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Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.

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Hands, Desire, Sake

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.77, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

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Jesus, Self Love, Suffering

"Encountering the Extraordinary". Essay by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1934), published in "Meditations on the Cross" edited by Manfred Weber and translated by Douglas W. Scott (p. 1), 1998.

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As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.

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Forgiving, May, Fellowship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.79, SCM Press

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To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

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Reality, Significant, Factual

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

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Desire, Sake, Poverty

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.77, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.

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Jesus, Christ, Eternity

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.11, SCM Press

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Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.

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Christian, Jesus, Mean

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

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Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it is a brief, single encounter or the daily fellowship of years, Christian community is only this. We belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ.

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Christian, Jesus, Mean

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

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Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.

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Christian, Mean, Sanctification

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.212, SCM Press

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The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

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Christian, Encounters, World

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers, whether briefly or lenghtily, in the Litany of the Church, or with the sigh of one who knows not what he should pray for. True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs.

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Prayer, Father, Faithful

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

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...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a thorn but as a precious gift deep within, a hidden treasure of which one can always be certain.

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Gratitude, Memories, Past

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We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ideas, Divine, Should

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Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world.

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Christian, Fall, Fate

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God is not free from human beings but for them.

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Humans, Human Beings

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The cross is suffering with Christ.

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Suffering, Christ, Crosses

"The Cost of Discipleship (Discipleship and the Cross)". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (p. 86), 1937.

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Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend – it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.

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Deep Water, Helping, Where You Are

"The Cost of Discipleship".

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Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them

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Men, Two, Knowing

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1959). “Creation and fall: a theological interpretation of Genesis 1-3”

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If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

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Thanksgiving, Self, Desire

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.115, SCM Press

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Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing.

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Blessed, Blessing, Hands

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

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Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.

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Christian, Recovery, Church

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

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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

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Community, Done, Christ

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.14, SCM Press

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Born: February 4, 1906
Died: April 9, 1945
Occupation: Pastor
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