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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Inspirational Quotes (226)

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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.
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Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
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There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.
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Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.
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The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.
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The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.
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The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.
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It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.
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The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
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It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.
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I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.
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Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
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The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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He who loves community destroys community he who loves the brethren builds community.
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Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.
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We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.
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Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.
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To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's hand alone, we shall be protected even in the greatest danger and from our gratitude for such protection ever new readiness surely arises for the final call
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May God in His mercy lead us through these times but above all, may He lead us to Himself.
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