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Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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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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Fruit is always the miraculous, the created it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends
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Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
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The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
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Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
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All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.
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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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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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Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
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When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
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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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When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me
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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.
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God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.
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God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises.
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The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.
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