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What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

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Clever, Men, Needs
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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

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

If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

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Prayer, Heart, Important

If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free.

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Men, Discipline, Soul
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1983). “The martyred Christian: 160 readings from Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Scribner

A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

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Morning, Prayer, Evening

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

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Loneliness, People, Church
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2008). “Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 1928-1931”

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

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”

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

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Peace, Eye, Perspective
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1998). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings”

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

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

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”

As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future.

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Long, Armor, Looks

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.

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Men, Following Christ, Grace

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

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Community, Christian Community

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

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

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

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

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Christian, Political, Tasks

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

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

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

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

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Christian, Suffering, World

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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