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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.
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 very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
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A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.
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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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The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.
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He who loves community destroys community he who loves the brethren builds community.
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There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.
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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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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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