CQOD: 09/29/06 -- Bonhoeffer: becoming a Christian

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 29, 2006

Feast of Michael & All Angels

Meditation:
    [Jesus said,] Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.
    -- Matthew 26:46 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself—a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman, a righteous or unrighteous man, ... when in the fullness of tasks, questions, success or ill-hap, experiences and perplexities, a man throws himself into the arms of God... then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.
    ... Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I am merely walking and breathing dust. Make of me what You intend, not what I wish.

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