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One who loves his community destroys community one who loves its members builds community.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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Breslau
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God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.
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A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.
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A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.
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Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.
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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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Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.
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The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self.
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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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Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.
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Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.
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Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.
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