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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Nature, Children, Accountability

It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.

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

A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Children, Father, Struggle

Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, l honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger; whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high; whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory of God precisely in his lowliness.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Letting Go, Children, Vanity
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.26, Westminster John Knox Press

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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Children, Fall

The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

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

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
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