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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross he waited until one of them turned to him.
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God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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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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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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A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.
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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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Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
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The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the freewill offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling.
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The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
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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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The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.
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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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The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.
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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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Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love.
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Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.
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Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.
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Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic.
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