Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Community Quotes

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Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.

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The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

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A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him. Neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on the stand. … The bushel may be the fear of men, or perhaps deliberate conformity to the world for some ulterior motive.

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Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.

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Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.

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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

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Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.

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Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

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The Cross is not the terrible end of a pious happy life. Instead, it stands at the beginning of community with Jesus Christ. Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.

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The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

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The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

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The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and His work become the one and only thing that is vital between us.

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It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

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How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.

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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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