It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.


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Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 2. the ministry of meekness ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fel...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to judge....
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles Life together under the Word will remain sound a...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles The heart of man is revealed in temptation. Man knows his sin, wh...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Feast of Michael & All Angels When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
When the Bible speaks of "following Jesus", it is proclaiming a discipleship which will liberate man...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
But when once Christ had called him, Peter had no alternative he must leave the ship and come to Him...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945 Not only the young Christian but also the adu...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951 We preach Jesus Christ ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Maundy Thursday Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945 What do I mean by "interpr...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 It is the fellowship of the Cro...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
MARLENE DIETRICH
Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast
MARLENE DIETRICH
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being a...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
It is not that God's help and presence must still be proved in our life; rather God's presence and h...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The most experienced psychologist or observer of human nature knows infinitely less of the human hea...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
We all know how quick David can be, when he is fully motivated. He still has it.
DIETRICH MATESCHITZ
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
What determines our brotherhood is what that man is by reason of Christ. Our community with one anot...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The more we have known of the really good things, the more insipid the thin lemonade of later litera...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt th...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich with...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of dai...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it co...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
[...]we must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inade...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Just as Christians should not be constantly feeling the pulse of their spiritual life, so too the Ch...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
In the Christian community thankfulness is just what it is anywhere else in the Christian life. Only...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The Christian, however, must bear the burden of a brother. He must suffer and endure the brother. It...
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...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want t...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy a...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our pa...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
God has prepared for Himself one great song of praise throughout eternity, and those who enter the c...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowshi...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not sma...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
It is only the cynic who claims “to speak the truth” at all times and in all places to all men i...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
There is a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person ha...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot clai...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the si...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stand...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's s...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division w...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit wi...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER