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Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
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The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.
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That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.
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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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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, l honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory of God precisely in his lowliness.
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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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In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility.
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He who loves community destroys community he who loves the brethren builds community.
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Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.
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The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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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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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
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There remains an experience of incomparable value.
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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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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 Psalter is the great school of prayer.
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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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