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Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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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 pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.
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The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.
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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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The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.
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A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.
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The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.
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There remains an experience of incomparable value.
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Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
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He who loves community destroys community he who loves the brethren builds community.
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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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Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.
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If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?
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Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?
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Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.
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Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.
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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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Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.
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What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.
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How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
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