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God is not free from human beings but for 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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Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.
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Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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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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The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.
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It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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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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Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.
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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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Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.
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The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These few will greatly enjoy the divine inspiration and will be prepared to stand for the dignity of Man and true freedom and to keep the Law of God, even of it means martyrdom or death.
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Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
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The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
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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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The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.
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It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.
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