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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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The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed the Psalter and now it has become his prayer for all time...we understand how the Psalter can be prayer to God and yet God's own Word, precisely because here we encounter the praying Christ...because those who pray the psalms are joining in with the prayer of Jesus Christ, their prayer reaches the ears of God. Christ has become their intercessor...
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The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.
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How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
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The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him.
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Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.
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We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.
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The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.
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The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.
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My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.
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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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Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.
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It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.
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But they all stood beneath the cross, enemies and believers, doubters and cowards, revilers and devoted followers. His prayer, in that hour, and his forgiveness, was meant for them all, and for all their sins. The mercy and love of God are at work even in the midst of his enemies. It is the same Jesus Christ, who of his grace calls us to follow him, and whose grace saves the murderer who mocks him on the cross in his last hour.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.
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If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts... for they have already been given to another.
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It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.
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In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.
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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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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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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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The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.
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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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Born:
February 4, 1906
Died:
April 9, 1945
(aged 39)
Bio:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church.
Known for:
The Cost of Discipleship (1937)
Life Together (1939)
Letters and papers from prison
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