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Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
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Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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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 church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.
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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.
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Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.
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Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.
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The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.
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We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
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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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The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
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The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth.
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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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Politics are not the task of a Christian.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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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A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.
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He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.
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