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Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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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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Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.
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Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
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The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist.
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God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.
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Jesus is there only for others…God in human form! not…in the Greek divine-human form of 'man in himself', but 'the man for others', and therefore the crucified.
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Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.
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Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
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If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.
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The sword wherewith they judge their brethren will fall upon their own heads. Instead of cutting themselves off from the brother as the just from the unjust, they find themselves cut off from Jesus.
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When the spirit touches
man's heart and brow
with thoughts that are lofty, bold, serene,
so that with clear eyes he will face the world
as a free man may;
when the spirit gives birth to action
by which alone we stand or fall;
when from the sane and resolute action
rises the workd that gives a a man's life
content and meaning — then would that many,
lonely and actively working,
know of the spirit that grasps and befriends him...
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As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.
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It is wrong to say that God fills the emptiness. God in no way fills it but much more leaves it precisely unfilled and thus helps us preserve — even in pain — the authentic relationship.
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The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.
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The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.
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In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.
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Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.
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When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.
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If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?
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It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.
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May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.
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There are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in the Christ event/redemption and creation.
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God cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with grace and love. God makes us happy, as only children can be happy.
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Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
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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
Psalms
Sanctorum communio
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