More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
the evenings, with his ear pressed
“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
“And seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not. For behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh; but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.”
“to the finest logic of Christian martyrdom.” “I shall have no right,”
“to participate in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany after the war if I do not share the trials of this time with my people…. Christians in Germany will face the terrible alternative of either willing the defeat of their nation in order that Christian civilization may survive, or willing the victory of their nation and thereby destroying our civilization. I know which of these alternatives I must choose; but I cannot make this choice in security.”
I am sure of God’s hand and guidance…. You must never doubt that I am thankful and glad to go the way which I am being led. My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.”
self-righteousness and complacency great sins against the Holy Spirit, and regarded ambition and vanity as the start of the road to hell.
“the spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord”
when in the fullness of tasks, questions, success or ill-hap, experiences and perplexities, a man throws himself into the arms of God… then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane.
“Christian and Unbeliever,”
“He who severs himself from the Confessional Church severs himself from the Grace of God.”
Indeed, we have to rejoice in God’s mercy. We have not found Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s grave, but the memory of his life will safely be guarded, not only in the hearts of those who are indissolubly united with him, but also in the heart of the Church who draws her life-blood again and again from those who “follow him.” Beyond that we know that the time will come when we shall have to realize that we owe it to the inspiration of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s life and death, and of those who died with him, that Western civilization can be saved. For not only in its material standards, but also in its
...more
is that Western civilization must not die. It will be born again to youth.
Bonhoeffer and to those who have given their lives for the new humanity
The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
his Pecca fortiter, sed fortius fide et gaude in Christo (“Sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ more boldly still”)?
Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason? If so, you must not be surprised
Is there?
