Translated by Craig L. Nessam (WHO IS CHRIST FOR US?
Fortress Press, 2002, ISBN : 0-8006-3480-2
A letter from Bonhoeffer to
Elizabeth Zinn, 1936 :
I bury myself in work in a very unchristian and
immodest way. A crazed ambition, which some
have noticed about me, makes life difficult. . .
Then something else happened, something
that up to this day has changed and rearranged
my life. I came to the first time to the Bible. .
I had already often preached; I had already seen
much of the church, even spoken and written
about it -- and still I had never become
a Christian, but instead was very furiously
and unrestrainedly my own Lord . . .
Also I had never prayed, or only very little.
I was with utter abandonment
entirely content with myself.
The BIBLE has liberated me from that,
and especially the Sermon on the Mount.
Since that time everything
has become different.
[page 62 of Nessan's WHO IS CHRIST
FOR US TODAY ]
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