The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed … - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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I think if you look at the friends, the kinds of relationships I have, I am not the kind of guy who has many shallow relationships. I think you could say I am the kind of guy who has a few relationships, but those are very deep.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed the Psalter and now it has become his prayer for all time. . . we understand how the Psalter can be prayer to God and yet God's own Word, precisely because here we encounter the praying Christ. . . because those who pray the psalms are joining in with the prayer of Jesus Christ, their prayer reaches the ears of God. Christ has become their intercessor.

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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

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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.

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The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. . . . . We must not. . . . . assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

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