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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
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend – it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.
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Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.
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Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
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Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.
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A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.
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Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.
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The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.
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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 early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind
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Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic.
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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth.
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Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
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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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The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.
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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 the suffering God can help.
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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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