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“The prayer of the morning will determine the day. Wasted time, which we are ashamed of, temptations that beset us, weakness and listlessness in our work, disorder and indiscipline in our thinking and our relations with other people very frequently have their cause in neglect of the morning prayer.”

“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity” - this is the Scripture’s praise of life together under the Word. But now we can rightly interpret the words “in unity” and say, “for brethren to dwell together through Christ.” For Jesus Christ alone is our unity. Pg. 39

Bonhoeffer describes the difference between human love and spiritual love. Both begin in desire for community and can look the same, but human love operates to secure admiration and desire. Human love cannot “stops short” at an enemy. Muddied by over explanation, this is most clear when he says, “Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ’s sake.”

I wanted to highlight the entire first chapter. Good stuff.