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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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• In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

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  Inspirational, Life, Thank You

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

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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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• Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.

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  Giving, Littles, Thanks

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• Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

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  Hoarding, Wealth, Used

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.120, SCM Press

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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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• Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

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  Self, Judging, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.70, SCM Press

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• The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

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  Suffering, Earth, Christ

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• Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak and pray the same Word at the same time; in other words, because here they can unite in the Word.

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  Christian, Singing, Together

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.43, SCM Press

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• A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.

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  Generations, Next, Righteous

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• Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

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  Faithful, Daily Life, Great Things

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.67, SCM Press

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• The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

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  Men, Expression, Law

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

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• Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.

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  Christian, Community, Path

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

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• A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner.

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  Christian, Brother, Hate

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.65, SCM Press

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• Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will occur along life's way and all that is required is the willingness to act when the time comes. The needs of the neighbor, especially those of the weak and downtrodden, the victimized and the persecuted, the ill and the lonely, will become abundantly evident.

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  Christian, Lonely, Opportunity

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• Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.

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  God, Christian, World

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• Only in Jesus are we able to pray, and with Him we also know that we shall be heard.

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  Jesus, Able, Praying

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Bethge (1974). “Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible”, p.11, Augsburg Books

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• Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

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  Fighting, Grace, Enemy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.3, SCM Press

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• In the first place, the church can ask the state whether its actions are legitimate and in accordance with its character as state, i.e., it can throw the state back on its responsibilities. Secondly, it can aid the victims of state action. The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering of society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community. The third possibility is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

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  Christian, Responsibility, Character

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• Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

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  Time, Creative, Suffering

  Life Magazine (p. 47), April 22, 1957; later quoted in Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Letters and Papers from Prison" (p. 47), 1967.

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• The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

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  Wise, Reality, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1965). “Ethics”

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• Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey.

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  Believe

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• I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith.

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  Mean, Thinking, Suffering

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2018). “Letters and Papers from Prison: New edition, with a new introduction by Samuel Wells”, p.137, SCM Press

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• Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.

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  Men, Mercy Of God, Mercy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

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• I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer. At the place of execution, he again said a prayer and then climbed the steps to the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued in a few seconds. In the almost 50 years that I have worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God.

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  Prayer, Men, Doctors

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