Jesus community: quote of the week: Bonhoeffer on spiritual dryness

Sunday, May 17, 2009

...may it not be that God Himself sends us these hours of reproof and dryness that we may be brought again to expect everything from His Word?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, 84

Mama K said...: Good thought. thanks... it's encouraging.; 11:13 PM, May 17, 2009
Ted M. Gossard said...: Yes, Mama K. Reading Merton a bit at the retreat we were at on Saturday, he brought out how God makes us dry for a good reason, and often more so later on in our lives. Probably to deepen us in putting more of a sense of need in us, that we find fulfilled only in God through God's word to us in Christ.; 5:01 AM, May 18, 2009
Jim Martin said...: Ted--Thanks for this quote. I was unfamiliar with it.; 6:15 PM, May 25, 2009
Ted M. Gossard said...: Thanks Jim for coming over and commenting! Yes, that's a great book. So many good quotes one can gather from it. So much so that I might say the same thing, even after reading it several times.; 5:38 AM, May 26, 2009