He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.
Eric Metaxas
Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.
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Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
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This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.
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Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.
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There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.
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(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.
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