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A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.
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The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
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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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Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.
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Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.
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God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.
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Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
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The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.
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Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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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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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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Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death.
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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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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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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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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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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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