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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power of him who supports them. The disciples bear the suffering laid on them only by the power of him who bears all suffering on the cross. As bearers of suffering, they stand in communion with the Crucified.
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A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.
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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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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.
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Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
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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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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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Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.
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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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A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.
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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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Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.
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A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.
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Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.
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