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• God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.

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  Turns, Humans

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• Cheap grace is the idea that "grace" did it all for me so I do not need to change my lifestyle. The believer who accepts the idea of "cheap grace" thinks he can continue to live like the rest of the world. Instead of following Christ in a radical way, the Christian lost in cheap grace thinks he can simply enjoy the consolations of his grace.

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  Christian, Thinking, Following Christ

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• The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.

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  Jesus, Crazy, Blessed

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• We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.

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  Mirrors, Order, Silence

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, David McI. Gracie (2000). “Meditating on the Word”, p.50, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.

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  Life, Hands, Needs

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• Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

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  Love Is, Judging Yourself, Evil

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.129, SCM Press

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• If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

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  Sad, Running, Depressing

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• Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.

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  Valentines Day, Hatred, Needs

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

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• The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

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  Christian, Brother, Mean

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.24, SCM Press

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• Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.

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  Simple, Obedience, Obedience To God

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• The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.

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  Brother, Listening, Fellowship With God

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• The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

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  Long, Decision, Eternity

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.159, SCM 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.

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  Lying, Believe, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1997). “Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity, or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil.

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  Christian, Light, Justice

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

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  Jesus, Two, Trying

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• It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!

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  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

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  Religious, Taken, People

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• We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

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  Light, People, Empathy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

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  Mean, Men, Church

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• When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me

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  Thinking, Here And Now

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• The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods . . . . His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather than inflict it on others. They maintain fellowship where others would break it off. They renounce hatred and wrong. In so doing they overcome evil with good, and establish the peace of God in the midst of a world of war and hate.

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  Peace, Hate, War

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• Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

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  Eye, Thinking, Security And Freedom

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.122, SCM Press

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• The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

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  Life, Happiness, Success

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• The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.

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  Listening, Firsts

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

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• But they all stood beneath the cross, enemies and believers, doubters and cowards, revilers and devoted followers. His prayer, in that hour, and his forgiveness, was meant for them all, and for all their sins. The mercy and love of God are at work even in the midst of his enemies. It is the same Jesus Christ, who of his grace calls us to follow him, and whose grace saves the murderer who mocks him on the cross in his last hour.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.34, SCM Press

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