Dietrich Bonhoeffer Spiritual Quotes — Page 8

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Theologian

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“Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they renounce their own righteousness too. They get no praise for their achievements or sacrifices. They cannot have righteous– ness except by hungering and thirsting for it (this applies equally to their own righteousness and to the righteousness of God on earth ), always they look forward to the future righteousness of God, but they cannot establish it for themselves. Those who follow Jesus grow hungry and thirsty on the way.”

Jesus Sacrifice Blessed

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Theologian

Spiritual

“The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the freewill offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling.”

Giving Self Offering

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“The Psalter is the great school of prayer.”

School Prayer

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“We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know.”

Knows Unsolved Problems

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“The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.”

Goal Essence Lust

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“The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.”

Responsible Whole Life Response

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“If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?”

Different Christianity Garments

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“Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.”

Desire Poverty Sake

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“Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.”

Morning Prayer Work

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“There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the inner life. Any attempt to escape from the world must sooner or later be paid for with a sinful surrender to the world.”

World Christian Spheres

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“I can never know beforehand how God’s image should appear in others. That image always manifests a completely new and unique form that comes solely from God’s free and sovereign creation. To me the sight may seem strange, even ungodly. But God creates every man in the likeness of His Son, the Crucified. After all, even that image certainly looked strange and ungodly to me before I grasped it.”

Men Son Unique

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“We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.”

Needs Earth Grace

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer — Spiritual Quotes

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes