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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

Eric Metaxas
“There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.”
Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“God did not make this person as I would have made him. He did not give him to me as a brother for me to dominate and control, but in order that I might find above him the Creator. Now the other person, in the freedom with which he was created, becomes the occasion of joy, whereas before he was only a nuisance and an affliction. God does not will that I should fashion the other person according to the image that seems good to me, that is, in my own image; rather in his very freedom from me God made this person in His image. 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.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one’s own strength, one has to inquire of him. Only if we seek him, will he answer us.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Eric Metaxas
“It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.”
Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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