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Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 1953
A collection of letters, theological reflections, poems, and personal writings by German theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer during his imprisonment in Nazi Germany (1943–1945), edited by Eberhard Bethge. The work documents his spiritual and intellectual life while awaiting trial and execution.
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What this book knows
From a Nazi prison cell, Bonhoeffer discovers that authentic faith means living fully for others in a world come of age, without religious props.
self-and-identity
Who am I? Am I one person today, and tomorrow another? restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath
LPP-RC-279We ought not to be in too much of a hurry to speak piously of God's will; it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph
LPP-RC-033faith-and-doubt
there remains for us only the very narrow way of living every day as if it were our last, and yet living in faith and responsibility
LPP-RC-015How one lives entirely on a basis of trust! Without trust, life is impoverished. I'm now learning every day how good it always was being with you
LPP-RC-024mortality
When you've deliberately suppressed every desire for so long, it may burn you up inside, or one day there is a terrific explosion
LPP-RC-252She bore the death of her father, her brother and two cousins last year. She is still so very young — that is the hard thing
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