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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Inspirational Quotes (226)

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Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.
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time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Where a people prays, there is the church and where the church is there is never loneliness.
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The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.
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A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.
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It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Fruit is always the miraculous, the created it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends
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Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.
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The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind
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It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.
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If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
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A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.
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Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.
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He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.
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A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.
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We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
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Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
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The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.
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Once again, Jesus calls those who follow him to share his passion.
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A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self.
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The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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