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Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.
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 disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.
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the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.
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God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.
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Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.
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One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
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Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.
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The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.
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There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.
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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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Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.
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The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.
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God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And by judging us, he cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with his grace and love. He makes us happy as only children can be happy.
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Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.
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Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
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Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
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