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Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.
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God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.
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Once again, Jesus calls those who follow him to share his passion.
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It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!
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The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.
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If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.
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Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free
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Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.
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The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
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It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.
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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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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind
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While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
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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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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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Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.
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We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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