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31. "It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there."
32. "He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave."
33. "I must not think it strange if God takes in youth those whom I would have kept on earth until they were older. God is peopling eternity, and I must not restrict Him to old men and women."
34. "To go back is nothing but death: to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward."
35. "'Who gathered this flower?' The gardener answered, 'The Master.' And his fellow servant held his peace." (on an epitaph)
36. "Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes."
37. "Lord, if any have to die this day, let it be me, for I am ready."
38. "At the place of execution, he again said a short prayer and then climbed the steps to the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued after a few seconds. In almost fifty years that I worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God." [Prison doctor witness to Bonhoeffer's death]
39. "Die: To stop sinning suddenly."
40. "On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side, orphans, on that, children; on this side, captives, on that, freemen."
