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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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A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.
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In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility.
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If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?
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We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all.
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The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.
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Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.
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If any want to become my followers, Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. ... If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves ... and take up their cross.
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The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.
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It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.
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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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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
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Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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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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Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death.
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Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.
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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.
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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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