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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to 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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Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free
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The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.
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Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.
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A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.
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Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
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The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
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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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The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.
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All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.
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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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It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
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Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.
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It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.
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Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death.
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Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.
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What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.
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