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Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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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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There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.
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There remains an experience of incomparable value.
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Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
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Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death.
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.
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He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.
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Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life
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Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.
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One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
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To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's hand alone, we shall be protected even in the greatest danger and from our gratitude for such protection ever new readiness surely arises for the final call
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The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
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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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In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.
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The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
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