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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge.
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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 first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.
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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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