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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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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Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.
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Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
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Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
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Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.
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Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.
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While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.
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Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
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time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.
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God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.
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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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Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it is a brief, single encounter or the daily fellowship of years, Christian community is only this. We belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ.
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Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.
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If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet.
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Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.
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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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If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?
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What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.
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One who loves his community destroys community one who loves its members builds community.
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