Dietrich Bonhoeffer Spiritual Quotes — Page 4

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Theologian

Spiritual

“So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.”

Home Jesus Uncomfortable Feeling

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Theologian

Spiritual

“...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all.”

Eye Dark Christmas

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Spiritual

“When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.”

Prayer Christ

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Spiritual

“Only the suffering God can help.”

Suffering Helping

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Spiritual

“The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.”

Heart Father Prayer

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Spiritual

“The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is to this image that the life of the disciples must be conformed; in other words, they must be conformed to his death (Phil 3.10, Rom 6.4) The Christian life is a life of crucifixion (Gal 2.19) In baptism the form of Christ's death is impressed upon his own. They are dead to the flesh and to sin, they are dead to the world, and the world is dead to them (Gal 6.14). Anybody living in the strength of Christ's baptism lives in the strength of Christ's death.”

World Christian Baptism

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Spiritual

“It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ”

Men Soul Taken

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Spiritual

“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.”

Order Silence Mirrors

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Spiritual

“Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.”

Jesus Matter Significance

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Spiritual

“We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.”

Spiritual Sleep Should Have

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Spiritual

“To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'”

Self Denial Asceticism

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Spiritual

“True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers, whether briefly or lenghtily, in the Litany of the Church, or with the sigh of one who knows not what he should pray for. True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs.”

Father Prayer Faithful

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer — Spiritual Quotes

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes