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Where a people prays, there is the church and where the church is there is never loneliness.
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 day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.
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Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.
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Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.
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Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend – it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.
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We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.
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In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.
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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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It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved, but rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to his Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.
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