Dietrich Bonhoeffer Spiritual Quotes — Page 5

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Theologian

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“If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. ... "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves ... and take up their cross.”

Self Jesus Followers

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Theologian

Spiritual

“Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature.”

Real Christian Spiritual

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“A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.”

Morning Prayer Evening

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“While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.”

People Real Evil

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“Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.”

Christian God Respect

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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.”

Book Jesus Prayer

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“Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive. He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.”

Dream Christian Broken

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“Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ.”

Jesus Helping Answers

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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.”

Son Hero Pay

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“By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.”

Self Christian Jesus

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“The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.”

Lying Christian Bible

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“Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.”

Trying Tears Gaps

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer — Spiritual Quotes

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