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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
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After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, Lacked ye anything? and he will answer Nothing, Lord. How could he when he knows that despite hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger, the Lord is always at his side?
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...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all.
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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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When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.
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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.
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A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.
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The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.
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Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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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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The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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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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Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.
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One who loves his community destroys community one who loves its members builds community.
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