From Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
Letters and Papers from Prison, (369-370):
I discovered later, and I’m still discovering right up to this moment, that it is only by living completely IN THIS WORLD that one learns to have FAITH.
One must completely abandon any attempt to make something of oneself,
Whether it be a saint, or a (converted) sinner,
Or a churchperson or righteous or unrighteous one,
Or a sick or healthy one.
By this
worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life’s:
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Duties
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Problems
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Successes & failures
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Experiences & perplexities.
In doing so, we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God – taking seriously NOT our OWN suffering – but those of God in the World, (watching with Christ in
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Change the question from "Why?" to "How will the Holy Spirit bring LIFE out of this situation?"
