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It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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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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The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.
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Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love.
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The right way to pray 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 the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.
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Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
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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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Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.
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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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...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all.
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When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me
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That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.
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The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.
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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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A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.
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There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.
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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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The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies
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