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When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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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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Only the suffering God can help.
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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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Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.
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If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?
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Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
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A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.
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All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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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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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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