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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 church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
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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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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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A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.
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May God in His mercy lead us through these times but above all, may He lead us to Himself.
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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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How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
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He who loves community destroys community he who loves the brethren builds community.
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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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The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.
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Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.
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We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.
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the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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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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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
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Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
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Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.
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