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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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A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self.
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When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
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Only the suffering God can help.
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It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty.
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The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.
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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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Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
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A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.
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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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The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.
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How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
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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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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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A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.
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Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
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The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These few will greatly enjoy the divine inspiration and will be prepared to stand for the dignity of Man and true freedom and to keep the Law of God, even of it means martyrdom or death.
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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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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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