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The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
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God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And by judging us, he cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with his grace and love. He makes us happy as only children can be happy.
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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 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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By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.
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Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
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Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
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Where a people prays, there is the church and where the church is there is never loneliness.
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And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful” and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.
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If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
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Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.
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The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.
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The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.
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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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It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
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Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.
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If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?
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