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• A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.

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  Kings, Kingdoms, Strange

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is on the Cross: Reflections on Lent and Easter”, p.69, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

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  Jesus, Matter, Significance

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.16, SCM Press

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• It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty.

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  Christian, Prayer, Knowing

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.110, SCM Press

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• It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it.

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  Important, Use, Share

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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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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• If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

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  God, Spiritual, Jobs

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• If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

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  Humility, Way, Sin

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.74, SCM Press

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• Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.

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  Jesus, Suffering, Glory

  "Meditations on the Cross". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 3, 1996.

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• Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends

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  Tree, Growth, Fruits Of The Spirit

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.217, SCM Press

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• The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

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  Happy Life, Men, Christ

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.44, SCM Press

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• Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. Only those whose hearts are undefiled by their own evil--and by their own virtues too. The pure in heart have a child-like simplicity like Adam before the fall, innocent alike of good and evil: their hearts are not ruled by their conscience, but by the will of Jesus.

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  Jesus, Children, Fall

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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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• Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

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  Believe, Obedient

  "Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Meditation and Prayer".

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• Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power of him who supports them. The disciples bear the suffering laid on them only by the power of him who bears all suffering on the cross. As bearers of suffering, they stand in communion with the Crucified.

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  Broken, Support, Suffering

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• It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

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  Marriage, Inspirational Marriage, Marriage Problems

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.7, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

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  Christian, Suffering, World

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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.

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  Reality, Men, Sight

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1955). “Ethics”, SCM Press

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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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• We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

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  Gratitude, Giving, Thankfulness

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

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• Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.

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  Christian, Listening, Ministry

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.76, SCM Press

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• Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God's question and call.

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  Sacrifice, Answers, Principles

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “I Loved this People: Testimonies of Responsibility”, London : S.P.C.K.

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• Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one possibility: simple surrender and obedience - not interpreting or applying it, but doing and obeying it. That is the only way to hear his words. He does not mean for us to discuss it as an ideal. He really means for us to get on with it.

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  Jesus, Mean, Simple

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• It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

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  Blessed, Temptation, Together

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.

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  Crush, Men, Hands

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• What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.

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  Whole

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