Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes - Page 6

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• A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

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  Faith, Atheist, Godly

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• The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

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  Grace, Repentance, Preaching

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “The Way to Freedom: 1935-1939, from the Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, New York : Harper & Row

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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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• On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he left, he said to another prisoner, This is the end - but for me, the beginning - of life. He was hanged the next day, less than a week before the Allies reached the camp.

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  Life, Sunday, Two

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• Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

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  Grace, Discipleship, Christian Discipleship

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, SCM Press

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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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• Politics are not the task of a Christian.

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  Christian, Political, Tasks

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• The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.

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  Honor, Suffering, Lord

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• Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.

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  Love, Christian, Listening

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

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• A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.

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  Men, Order, People

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.17, SCM Press

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• Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

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  Mean, Responsibility, Political

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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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• Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

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  Gratitude, Memories, Being Thankful

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank and open our behaviour we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.

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  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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• One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

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  Reality, World, Tasks

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1965). “Ethics”

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• When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people.

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  People, Affected

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

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• We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

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  Spiritual, Sleep, Should Have

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

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• The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

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  Prayer, Heart, Poverty

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

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• Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

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  Theologian, Seriousness, Dose

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• What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

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  Clever, Men, Needs

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity. The world will allow itself to be subdued only by success. It is not ideas or opinions which decide, but deeds. Success alone justifies wrongs done With a frankness and off-handedness which no other earthly power could permit itself, history appeals in its own cause to the dictum that the end justifies the means The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.

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  Mean, Ideas, Done

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• Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

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  Faith, Believe, Obedience

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• It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.

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  Church, Tasks, Youth

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• Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.

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  Christian, Mean, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.45, SCM Press

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• It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

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  Gratitude, Achievement, Easy

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

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