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Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
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Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.
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Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
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Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.
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A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.
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Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.
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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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After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, Lacked ye anything? and he will answer Nothing, Lord. How could he when he knows that despite hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger, the Lord is always at his side?
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