Listening

"The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them" (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, 97).

Intercessory Prayer

"I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner. This is a happy discovery for the Christian who begins to pray for others" (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, 86).

Evangelical Christian

"We must learn to know the Scriptures again, as the Reformers and our fathers knew them. We must not grudge the time and the work that it takes. We must know the Scriptures first and foremost for our salvation. . . . But one who will not learn to handle the Bible for himself is not an evangelical Christian" (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, 54-55).

The Psalter and Prayer, Again

"Here [in the Psalter] we learn, first, what prayer means. It means praying according to the Word of God, on the basis of promise" (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, 47).

The Psalter and Prayer

"The Psalter is the great school of prayer" (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, 47).

Christian Brotherhood

"Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate" (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, 30).