CQOD: 10/16/05 -- Bonhoeffer: Christ stands between

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 16, 2005Meditation:
    There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
    -- Galatians 3:28 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology, however frank and open our behavior, we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.
    ... Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), The Cost of Discipleship [1964]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, lead me to know my neighbor through You.

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