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He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
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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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One who loves his community destroys community one who loves its members builds community.
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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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Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
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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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He who loves community destroys community he who loves the brethren builds community.
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So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
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The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.
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God is not free from human beings but for them.
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We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.
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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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