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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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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