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Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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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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Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.
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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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The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
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Each morning is a new beginning of our life. Each day is a finished whole. The present day marks the boundary of our cares and concerns. It is long enough to find God or lose Him, to keep faith or fall into disgrace.
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So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
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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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A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.
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A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.
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Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
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The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.
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Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
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the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
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The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.
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Where a people prays, there is the church and where the church is there is never loneliness.
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God is not free from human beings but for them.
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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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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Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events and we lay hold of a great hope.
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