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The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount. I

The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.

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Believe, Following Christ, People

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

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Empty, Lost, Time Left
LIFE magazine, April 22, 1957.

It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved, but rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to his Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.

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Jesus, Son, Israel
"Life Together".

Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.

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Christian, Talking, People
"Life Together".

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

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

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Redemption, World, Needs

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

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Mean, Temptation, Being Free
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1997). “Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The clergy must live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live in Christ, to exist for others.

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Mean, Men, Offering
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1986). “Bonhoeffer for a New Generation”

The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

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Prayer, Simple, Praying
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.35, SCM Press

It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

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Christian, Community, Grace
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.10, SCM Press

Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.

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Jesus, Decision, Action
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.166, SCM Press

Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.

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Jesus, Letters, Scripture

The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies

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Enemy, Kingdoms, Midst
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.7, SCM Press

The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world

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Real, Evil, Guilt

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.

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Anxiety, Use, Way
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.122, SCM Press

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

Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

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Prayer, Community, Baths
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Peter Frick (2010). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Meditation and Prayer”, p.17, Liturgical Press

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

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Men, Reason Why, Incarnation
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.81, SCM Press

Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

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

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

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Men, Christ, Discipleship

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

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Believe, Men, Obedience
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.23, SCM Press

The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist.

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Artist, Today, Century

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

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Men, Order, Law
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Johann Christoph Hampe (1977). “Prayers from prison: prayers and poems”, Not Avail

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

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Vanity, Self, Profound
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.58, SCM Press

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Hope, Inspiration, Future

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