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We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful” and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.
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Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem of himself. He can cope with every danger except the danger of human nature itself. In the last resort it all turns upon man.
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The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.
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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
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Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.
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What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.
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The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.
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Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
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It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty.
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It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.
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Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.
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While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.
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It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.
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The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
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