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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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Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.
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The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
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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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Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.
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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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