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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German: [ˈdiːtʁɪç ˈboːnhœfɐ]; 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German pastor, theologian, spy, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential, and his book The Cost of Discipleship has become a modern classic.

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If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and. . . give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves.

Assess, Become, Giving Up, Independent, Political, Religious

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

Became, Become, Christian, God, Like, Spiritual Wisdom

The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.

Behavior, Brother, Christian, Enemy, Jesus, Source

The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods. . . . His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather than inflict it on others. They maintain fellowship where others would break it off. They renounce hatred and wrong. In so doing they overcome evil with good, and establish the peace of God in the midst of a world of war and hate.

Cause, Hate, Hatred, Peace, War, World

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

Cross, Jesus, Trying, Turned, Two, Waited

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

Christ, Christian, Encounters, Life, Participation, World

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

Believe, Believes, Faith, Obedience, Obedient

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

God, Heal, Job, Jobs, Same, Spiritual

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

Battle, Battles, Way, Weapons

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

Free, Law, Making, Men, Order, Seeks

But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ. . . Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ--in that order.

Command, Decision, Jesus, Order, Recognized

Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians because we are talking when we should be listening.

Among, Christian, Listening, People, Talking

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.

Carry, Everyone, People, Satisfied, Wait, Waiting

May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.

God, Lead, May, Mercy, Times

There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

Journey, Meaning, Traveler, Unknown

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Courage, Wheels, Injustice, Victims, Drive

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Nothing, Odds, Prayer, Vanity

A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.

Ceased, Community, Follow, Jesus

Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.

Giving, Littles, Thanks, Receives, Things

Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world. It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God.

Angel, Felt, Hidden, Men, Pain

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