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One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
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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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God is not free from human beings but for them.
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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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That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.
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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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And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful” and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.
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The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.
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Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death.
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Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.
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God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.
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It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it.
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Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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One who loves his community destroys community one who loves its members builds community.
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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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Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
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