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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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Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events and we lay hold of a great hope.
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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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We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
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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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The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.
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Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free
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When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me
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Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.
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It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
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Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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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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Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
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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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God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.
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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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The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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