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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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Philosopher
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Breslau
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Politics are not the task of a Christian.
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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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Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.
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Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
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The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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Every call of Christ leads into death.
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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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What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.
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Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.
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The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
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The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.
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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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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 right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
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Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
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Where a people prays, there is the church and where the church is there is never loneliness.
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It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.
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The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.
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