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• Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they renounce their own righteousness too. They get no praise for their achievements or sacrifices. They cannot have righteous– ness except by hungering and thirsting for it (this applies equally to their own righteousness and to the righteousness of God on earth ), always they look forward to the future righteousness of God, but they cannot establish it for themselves. Those who follow Jesus grow hungry and thirsty on the way.

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  Jesus, Blessed, Sacrifice

  "The Cost of Discipleship".

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• The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.

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  Essence, Goal, Lust

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1967). “Letters and Papers from Prison”

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• If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?

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  Different, Christianity, Garments

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• The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.

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  Lying, Winning, Class

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• The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

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  Prayer, School, Great Schools

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2007). “I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions”, p.54, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.

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  Christian, Jesus, Community

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

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• Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death.

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  Christ

  "Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 87, 1937.

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• Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Whole Life

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• The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.

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  Responsible, Whole Life, Response

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• The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the freewill offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling.

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  Offering, Self, Giving

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• Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love. Be his enmity political or religious, he has nothing to expect from a follower of Jesus but unqualified love. In such love there is not inner discord between the private person and official capacity. In both we are disciples of Christ, or we are not Christians at all.

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  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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

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• Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.

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  Trying, Way, Certain

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• There remains an experience of incomparable value.

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  Incomparable, Remains, Values

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

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  Night, Cold, Hell

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• Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Real

  "Life Togehter".

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• Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. Fanatics think that their single-minded principles qualify them to do battle with the powers of evil; but like a bull they rush at the red cloak instead of the person who is holding it; he exhausts himself and is beaten. He gets entangled in non-essentials and falls into the trap set by cleverer people.

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  Fall, Thinking, People

  "Letters and Papers from Prison (Who Stands Fast?)". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (p. 4), 1967.

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• The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth.

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  Crosses, Knows

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• We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

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  Grace, Needs, Earth

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.38, SCM Press

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• The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

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  Validation, Rejection, Doe

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• I can never know beforehand how God’s image should appear in others. That image always manifests a completely new and unique form that comes solely from God’s free and sovereign creation. To me the sight may seem strange, even ungodly. But God creates every man in the likeness of His Son, the Crucified. After all, even that image certainly looked strange and ungodly to me before I grasped it.

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  Son, Unique, Men

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• The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

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  Hero, Son, Pay

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.32, SCM Press

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• In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

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  Men, Firsts, Steps

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.22, SCM Press

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• With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

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  Practice, Ideas, Christianity

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

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• In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility.

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  Jesus, Enemy, Cherish

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

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• Advent creates people, new people.

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  Healing, People, Advent

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.40, Westminster John Knox Press

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