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Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
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The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.
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It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.
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There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.
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The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.
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Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.
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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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Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.
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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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the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.
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While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.
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When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
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Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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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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The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These few will greatly enjoy the divine inspiration and will be prepared to stand for the dignity of Man and true freedom and to keep the Law of God, even of it means martyrdom or death.
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