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  • “I believe that we ought so to love and trust God in our lives, and in all the good things that he sends us, that when the time comes (but not before!) we may go to him with love, trust, and joy. But, to put it plainly, for a man in his wife’s arms to be hankering after the other world is, in mild terms, a piece of bad taste, and not God’s will. We ought to find and love God in what he actually gives us; if it pleases him to allow us to enjoy some overwhelming earthly happiness, we mustn’t try to be more pious than God himself and allow our happiness to be corrupted by presumption and arrogance, and by unbridled religious fantasy which is never satisfied with what God gives. God will see to it that the man who finds him in his earthly happiness and thanks him for it does not lack reminder that earthy things are transient, that it is good for him to attune his heart to what is eternal, and that sooner or later there will be times when he can say in all sincerity, ‘I wish I were home.’ But everything has its time, and the main thing is that we keep step with God, and do not keep pressing on a few steps ahead — nor keep dawdling a step behind. It’s presumptuous to want to have everything at once — matrimonial bliss, the cross, and the heavenly Jerusalem, where they neither marry nor are given in marriage. ‘For everything there is a season’ (Eccles. 3.1); everything has its time.’”

    — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, letter to Eberhard Bethge, 18 December 1943, Letters and Papers From Prison (edited by Eberhard Bethge) (via ayjay)

    (via invisibleforeigner)

    Tagged: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Eberhard Bethge Letters and Papers From Prison Ecclesiastes 3:1 Bonhoeffer

    Posted on January 11, 2012 via more than 95 theses with 37 notes ()

    Source: ayjay

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