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Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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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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The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist.
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God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.
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Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.
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The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.
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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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Once again, Jesus calls those who follow him to share his passion.
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Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death.
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Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
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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 the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.
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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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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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The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
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Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.
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Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free
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The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.
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It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
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The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.
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And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is.
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