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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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A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.
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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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We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.
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A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.
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Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.
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Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.
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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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When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
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The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.
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Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free
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The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
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In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.
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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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Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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