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Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.
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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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Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic.
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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 Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
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God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises.
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A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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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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So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.
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All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.
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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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Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge.
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A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.
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The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.
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