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The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Suffering, Earth, Christ

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Time, Creative, Suffering
Life Magazine (p. 47), April 22, 1957; later quoted in Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Letters and Papers from Prison" (p. 47), 1967.

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Honor, Suffering, Lord

I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Mean, Thinking, Suffering
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2018). “Letters and Papers from Prison: New edition, with a new introduction by Samuel Wells”, p.137, SCM Press

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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Suffering, Glory
"Meditations on the Cross". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 3, 1996.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Suffering, Tragedy
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1998). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings”

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Time, Creative, Suffering

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian, Suffering, World

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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Broken, Support, Suffering

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Men, Suffering, Obedience

Only the suffering God can help.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Suffering, Helping
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.134, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Self Love, Suffering
"Encountering the Extraordinary". Essay by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1934), published in "Meditations on the Cross" edited by Manfred Weber and translated by Douglas W. Scott (p. 1), 1998.

Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Suffering, Christ
"The Cost of Discipleship (Discipleship and the Cross)". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (p. 84), 1937.

The cross is suffering with Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Suffering, Christ, Crosses
"The Cost of Discipleship (Discipleship and the Cross)". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (p. 86), 1937.

God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Grace, Honor, Suffering
"Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 87, 1937.

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