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01c. 1925 AD

The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer / quote

02c. 1925 AD

Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions demanded by work become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer / quote

03c. 1925 AD

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ then we pray correctly.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer / quote

04c. 1925 AD

If we are to pray aright perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer not the poverty of our heart.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer / quote

05c. 1925 AD

Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him whether the heart is full or empty.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer / quote

06c. 1925 AD

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer / quote

07c. 1925 AD

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer / quote

08c. 1925 AD

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer / quote

09c. 1925 AD

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer / quote

10c. 1925 AD

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer / quote

11c. 1925 AD

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer / quote

12c. 1925 AD

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer / quote

13c. 1925 AD

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer / quote