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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
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To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
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The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.
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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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The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises.
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time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.
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The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
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The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.
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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.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
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What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.
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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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One who loves his community destroys community one who loves its members builds community.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.
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