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Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.
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Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.
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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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A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.
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Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.
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Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.
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Only the suffering God can help.
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And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful” and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.
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That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.
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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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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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