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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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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
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It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.
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In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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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 responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.
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The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.
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God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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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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Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.
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The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.
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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 limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
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We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.
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The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
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He who loves community destroys community he who loves the brethren builds community.
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One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
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