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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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• 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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• 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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• One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one’s own strength, one has to inquire of him. Only if we seek him, will he answer us.

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  Book, Thinking, Answers

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• Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love.

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  Christian, Hatred, Enemy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, SCM Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.

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  Friday, Easter, Fate

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God's coming at Christmas that we no longer feel the shiver of fear that God's coming should arouse in us. We are indifferent to the message, taking only the pleasant and agreeable out of it and forgetting the serious aspect, that the God of the world draws near to the people of our little earth and lays claim to us. The coming of God is truly not only glad tidings, but first of all frightening news for everyone who has a conscience.

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  Faith, Ideas, People

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.8, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

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  Christianity, Christ, Discipleship

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.17, SCM Press

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

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  Honor, Suffering, Lord

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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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• The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.

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  Christian, Jesus, Brother

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.

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  Song, Voice, Singing

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.45, 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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• Politics are not the task of a Christian.

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  Christian, Political, Tasks

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• A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that
  the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.

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  Christmas, Cells, Doors

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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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• 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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