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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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• 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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• 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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• We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

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  Schedules, Assuming, Ready

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• We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

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  Inspiring, Faith, Inspiration

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.76, SCM Press

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• Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

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  Real, Obedience

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.21, SCM Press

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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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  One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

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  Godly, Christian Inspirational, Christianity

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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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

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  Music, Character, Joy

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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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• 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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• Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.

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  Mean, Expectations, Pants

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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 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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• God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.

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  Emotion

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.15, SCM Press

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• Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

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  Infinite, Christianity, Worthless

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2008). “Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 1928-1931”

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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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