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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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A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.
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By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.
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All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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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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Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
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A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.
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The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.
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Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
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The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.
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The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.
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Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.
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He who loves community destroys community he who loves the brethren builds community.
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If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.
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The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the freewill offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling.
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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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What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.
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In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.
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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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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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