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It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.
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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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the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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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 act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
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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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All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.
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Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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