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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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• In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don't insist on your rights, don't blame each other, don't judge or condemn each other, don't find fault with each other, but accept each other as you are, and forgive each other every day from the bottom of your hearts.

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  Inspirational, Marriage, Heart

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

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  God, Christian, Spiritual Wisdom

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only service is always to have to 'offer' something when they are together with other people. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking. Many people seek a sympathetic ear and do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking even when they should be listening.

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  Christian, Brother, Thinking

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

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• God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

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  Pain, Real, Godly

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• If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves.

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  Religious, Giving Up, Independent

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

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• Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.

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  Justice, Compromise, Christ

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• The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

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  Goal, Lust, Purity

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• Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.

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  Jesus, Men, Call Me

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.

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  Children, Parent, Should

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

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  Love Is, Judging Yourself, Judging Others

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

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• There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

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  Journey, Traveler

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• Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. The heart which clings to goods receives with them the choking burden of worry. Worry collects treasures, and treasures produce more worries. We desire to secure our lives with earthly goods; we want our worrying to make us worry-free, but the truth is the opposite. The chains which bind us to earthly goods, the clutches which hold the goods tight, are themselves worries.

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  Believe, Heart, Opposites

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• So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.

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  Self, Doe, Fool

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

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• I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if it runs counter to our own wishes. As I see it, I'm here for some purpose, and I only hope I may fulfill it.

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  Running, Believe, Destiny

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Letters and Papers from Prison".

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• I believe that God both wills and is able to bring good out of everything, even the worst... I believe that even our mistakes and wrongdoing are not fruitless.

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  Mistake, Believe, Able

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• God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises.

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  Giving, Promise, Doe

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Clyde E. Fant (1975). “Bonhoeffer: worldly preaching”

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• I need the Christ that is in you, and you need the Christ that is in me.

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  Needs, Christ

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• The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

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  Hatred, Devil, Forgetfulness

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• If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .

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  Uplifting, Christian, Mean

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• God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.

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  Real, Doe, World

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• The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.

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  Christian, Grace, And Love

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2007). “I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions”, p.144, Westminster John Knox Press

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