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God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And by judging us, he cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with his grace and love. He makes us happy as only children

God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And by judging us, he cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with his grace and love. He makes us happy as only children can be happy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Children, Grace, Only Child
"A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer".

If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet.

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Want, Neighbor, Goodness
"Selected Writings".

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

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Hero, Worship, Christ

The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind

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Morning, Light, Church
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.27, SCM Press

Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share of suffering and rejection. But each has a different share: some God deems worthy of the highest form of suffering, and gives them the grace of martyrdom, while others he does not allow to be tempted above that which they are able to bear. But it is the one and the same cross in every case.

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

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

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Silence, Speech
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Geffrey B. Kelly (1990). “A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Harpercollins

The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

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Prayer, Father, Heart
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.111, SCM Press

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

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Strong, Men, Issues

It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.

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World, Have Faith, This World
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.137, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.

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Jesus, Law, Evil
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.91, SCM Press

Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.

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Jesus, Strong, Christ
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, p.61, Fortress Press

Every call of Christ leads into death.

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Christ
"Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 88, 1937.

The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.

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Morning, Prayer, Order
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Bethge (1974). “Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible”, p.64, Augsburg Books

Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy...He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone.

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Christian, Lying, Real

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

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Love, Envy, Judging
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

Only what is essential must be said.

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Essentials, Said

The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

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Differences, Silence, Community
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods.

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

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

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Tasks, Holy, Knows
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.30, Westminster John Knox Press

God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.

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Christmas, Men, Light
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.5, Westminster John Knox Press

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

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Strong, People, Opinion
"Letters and Papers from Prison: New edition, with a new introduction by Samuel Wells".

Each morning is a new beginning of our life. Each day is a finished whole. The present day marks the boundary of our cares and concerns. It is long enough to find God or lose Him, to keep faith or fall into disgrace.

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Morning, Fall, New Beginnings
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, David McI. Gracie (2000). “Meditating on the Word”, p.28, Rowman & Littlefield

After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing, Lord." How could he when he knows that despite hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger, the Lord is always at his side?

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Jesus, Following Christ, Long
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Wisdom, Heart, Mean

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

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Church, Wheels, Victim
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1995). “Selected Writings”, HarperCollins

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