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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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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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Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.
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If any want to become my followers, Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. ... If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves ... and take up their cross.
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It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved, but rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to his Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.
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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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We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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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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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 church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.
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Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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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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Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.
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The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.
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Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.
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What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.
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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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A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.
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