Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes - Page 8

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• Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

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  Time, Creative, Suffering

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• There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become truly afraid. These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ....No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian theology finds its beginnings in the miracle of miracles, that God became human.

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  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jana Riess, O. C. Dean, Jr. (2010). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”

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• To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Suffering, Tragedy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1998). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings”

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• Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

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  Joy, Draws, Unfathomable

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• The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.

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  Brethren

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.75, SCM Press

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• When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.

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  Christian, Giving Up, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.22, SCM Press

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• Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.

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  Pain, Grieving, Trying

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• A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.

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  Stress, Home, Storm

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in God's presence and to be with God alone. It means not grieving God, but rejoicing in God simply because it is God who is involved, and because we are permitted to know and have God, and to speak with and live with God.

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  Mean, Thinking, Grieving

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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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• 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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• The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth.

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  Christian, Needs, Helping

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.12, SCM Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.

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  Prayer, Praying, Christ

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Bethge (1974). “Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible”, p.11, Augsburg Books

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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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• Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

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  Jesus, Grace, Christ

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

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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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• There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

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  Kindness, Religion, Sin

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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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