Drinking From a Fire hose

The next book that i'm reading from my WMF reading list is "Life Together" By Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Its not a huge book. I thought i'd finish it faster than am - but then i realized this little book was going to require more than a quick read. I am being challenged by the ideas and explanations that Bonhoeffer puts forward...and i also feel like i'm trying to drink from a fire hose.

Here are some phrases/paragraphs that have caught my attention:
On Community:

• God is not a God of the emotions, but the God of truth.
• The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's Word to him
• The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his work become the on and only thing that is vital between us
• Christian brotherhood is not an idea which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate
• Jesus Christ alone is our unity. 'He is our peace.' Through him alone do we have access to one another, joy in one another, and fellowship with one another

Worship together:

• At the threshold of a new day stands the Lord who made it. (i hate mornings...but this thought could go a long way in transforming how i feel about waking up...)
• Holy Scripture is more than a watchword. Is is also more than 'light for today.' It is the revealed Word for all men, for all times.
• As a whole the Scriptures are God's revealing Word. Only in the infiniteness of its inner relationships, in the connection of Old and New Testaments, of promise and fulfillment, sacrifice and law, law and gospel, cross and resurrection, faith and obedience, having and hoping, will the full witness to Jesus Christ the Lord be perceived.
• The Scripture is a whole and every word, every sentence, possesses such multiple relationships with the whole that it is impossible always to keep the whole in view when listening to details. It becomes apparent, therefore, that the whole of Scriptures and hence every passage in it as well far surpasses our understanding.
• Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak and pray the same Word at the same time; in other words, because here they can unite in the Word. All devotion, all attention should be concentrated upon the Word in the hymn. The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

just some truths swirling around in my head...