Becoming A Child of Mature Faith

 

Oswald Chambers:

“God is love. In the future, when trial and difficulties await you, do not be fearful. Let not this faith slip from you—God is love; whisper it not only to your heart in its hour of darkness, but here in your corner of God’s earth. Live in the belief of it; preach it by your sweetened, chastened, happy life; sing it in consecrated moments of peaceful joy;” Oswald Chambers, The Love of God

“The mature saint is just like a little child, absolutely simple and joyful. Go on living the life that God would have you live and you will grow younger instead of older.” Oswald Chambers, The Psychology of Redemption

Quotes about Dietrich Bonhoeffer from two men who knew him as a person who lived out what Oswald Chambers describes above: 

“The yoke he took was easy, and the burden of his master light; the vision cleared as he looked to Jesus, away from himself, and what years ago he had written of the Christian’s hope, was now fulfilled: ‘He becomes what he was—or rather, never was—a child.” 

Franz Hildebrandt, in his eulogy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, quoted in the book, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas

“Best (a prison mate of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the last days of Bonhoeffer's life) described Bonhoeffer as ‘all humility and sweetness; he always seemed to me to diffuse an atmosphere of happiness, of joy in every smallest event in life, and of deep gratitude for the mere fact that he was alive…He was one of the very few men that I have ever met to whom his God was real and ever close to him.’” 

Quoted in Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas