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God turns toward the very places from which humans turn 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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Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.
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A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.
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What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.
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The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.
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A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
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Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge.
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When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.
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Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it is a brief, single encounter or the daily fellowship of years, Christian community is only this. We belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ.
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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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Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.
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Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.
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One who loves his community destroys community one who loves its members builds community.
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What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.
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Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic.
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Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.
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