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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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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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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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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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A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.
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God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.
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The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.
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The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.
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Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.
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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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The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.
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By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.
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In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.
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Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.
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Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.
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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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