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It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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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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One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
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He who loves community destroys community he who loves the brethren builds community.
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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 fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.
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