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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.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Inspirational, Life, Thank You

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

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• The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.

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  Sin, Isolated, Persons

  "Life Together".

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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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• He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.

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  Men, Doe, Faces

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

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  Giving, Littles, Thanks

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

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  Believe

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is.

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  Jesus, Heart, Simple

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

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• The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.

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  Christian, Attachment, Firsts

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• A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.

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  Christian, Fellowship, Members

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

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• A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

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  Morning, Prayer, Evening

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