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What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.
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time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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God is not free from human beings but for them.
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Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge.
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the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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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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Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
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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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There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.
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The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.
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