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Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is.
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So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.
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The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
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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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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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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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Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.
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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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Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.
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Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
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The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.
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One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
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Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.
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Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.
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Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Every call of Christ leads into death.
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