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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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The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
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Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
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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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Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.
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One who loves his community destroys community one who loves its members builds community.
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The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
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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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The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
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We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.
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The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.
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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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The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.
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In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.
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God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises.
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Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
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Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.
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