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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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• Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.

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  Gratitude, Wish, Life Is

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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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• The love for our enemies takes us along the way of the cross and into fellowship with the Crucified. The more we are driven along this road, the more certain is the victory of love over the enemy's hatred. For then it is not the disciple's own love, but the love of Jesus Christ alone, who for the sake of his enemies went to the cross and prayed for them as he hung there.

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  Jesus, Hatred, Enemy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Geffrey B. Kelly (1990). “A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Harpercollins

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• time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

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  Valuable, Valuable Things, Irrevocable

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

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• Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

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  Loneliness, People, Church

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

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• Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

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  Desire, Doe, Bread

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.51, SCM Press

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• Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest upon him, finds his burden easy, and under its gentle pressure receives the power to persevere in the right way. The command of Jesus is hard, unutterably hard, for those who try to resist it. But for those who willingly submit, the yoke is easy, and the burden is light.

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  Jesus, Men, Light

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.33, 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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• The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.

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  Christian, Grace, Ruins

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.14, SCM Press

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• Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.

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  Jesus, Unconditional Love, Judgement

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

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  Christian, Community, Church

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2013). “Letters to London: Bonhoeffer’s previously unpublished correspondence with Ernst Cromwell, 1935-36”, p.93, SPCK

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• I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

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  Brother, Hate, Matter

  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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• Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.

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  Blessing, Opportunity, Goodness

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Geffrey B. Kelly (1990). “A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Harpercollins

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• Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, l honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger; whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high; whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory of God precisely in his lowliness.

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  Letting Go, Children, Vanity

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.26, Westminster John Knox Press

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• It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.

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  Real, Liars, Lying

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• Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world. It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God.

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  Pain, Angel, Men

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• A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.

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  People, Community, Persons

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• A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self.

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  Children, Father, Struggle

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• If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.

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  God, Christian, Gracious

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• Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.

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  Evil, Combat, Refuse

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

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• Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

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  Battle, Weapons, Way

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Geffrey B. Kelly (1990). “A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Harpercollins

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• The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

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  Worry, New Day, Anxiety

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• There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God's commandment. Wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of almighty God. Not trying to direct it for selfish purposes. Battles are won not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads to the cross.

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  Selfish, Mean, Destiny

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