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Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.
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Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.
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God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And by judging us, he cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with his grace and love. He makes us happy as only children can be happy.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
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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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The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.
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Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
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The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word.
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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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Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
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The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.
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A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.
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That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.
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The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.
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The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
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