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And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

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Life Changing, World, Might

"The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer".

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Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.

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Jesus, Suffering, Christ

"The Cost of Discipleship (Discipleship and the Cross)". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (p. 84), 1937.

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Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.

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Christian, Reality, Brotherhood

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.18, SCM Press

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We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.

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God, Problem, Should

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Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.

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Morning, Prayer, Work

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We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know.

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Unsolved Problems, Knows

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2007). “I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions”, p.253, Westminster John Knox Press

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By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.

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Christian, Jesus, Self

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.92, SCM Press

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Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that both of us can never live by our own words and deeds, but only by that one Word and deed that really binds us together, the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ? The bright day of Christian community dawns wherever the early morning mists of dreamy visions are lifting

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Christian, Jesus, Morning

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If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when he denied him: "I know not this man." Self-denial is never just a series of isolated acts of mortification or asceticism. It is not suicide, for there is an element of self-will even in that. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self denial can say is: "He leads the way, keep close to him.

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Suicide, Men, Self

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask first what they have to do with us, but what they have to do with Jesus Christ...It does not depend, therefore, on whether the Psalms express adequately that which we feel at a given moment in our heart. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.

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Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

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People, Waiting, Satisfied

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.6, Westminster John Knox Press

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If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts... for they have already been given to another.

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Jesus, Heart, Mirages

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely to love our neighbor.

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Responsibility, Sober, Neighbor

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The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

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Father, War, Church

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When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek and find His living Word in the witness of a brother, in the mouth of man. Therefore, the Christian needs another Christian who speaks God’s Word to him. The Christ in his own heart is weaker than the Christ in the word of his brother; his own heart is uncertain, his brother’s is sure.

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Christian, Brother, Heart

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Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself.

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Spiritual, Mean, Love Is

"Life Togehter".

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Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

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God, Christian, Respect

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.150, SCM Press

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Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.

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Men, Doors, Grace

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.5, SCM Press

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How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.

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Believe, Community, Obedient

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Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.

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Brother, Thinking, Keeping Quiet

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.75, SCM Press

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The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and His work become the one and only thing that is vital between us.

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Jesus, Community, Christ

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

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Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.

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Love, Christian, Dream

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

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But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.

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Christian, Father, Anxiety

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

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Tears, Trying, Gaps

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “The Way to Freedom: 1935-1939, from the Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, New York : Harper & Row

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Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive. He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.

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Christian, Dream, Broken

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