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So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.
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It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.
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Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share of suffering and rejection. But each has a different share: some God deems worthy of the highest form of suffering, and gives them the grace of martyrdom, while others he does not allow to be tempted above that which they are able to bear. But it is the one and the same cross in every case.
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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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If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses... only through discipline may a man learn to be free.
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The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
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Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.
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The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.
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When the spirit touches
man's heart and brow
with thoughts that are lofty, bold, serene,
so that with clear eyes he will face the world
as a free man may;
when the spirit gives birth to action
by which alone we stand or fall;
when from the sane and resolute action
rises the workd that gives a a man's life
content and meaning — then would that many,
lonely and actively working,
know of the spirit that grasps and befriends him...
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Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
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It is wrong to say that God fills the emptiness. God in no way fills it but much more leaves it precisely unfilled and thus helps us preserve — even in pain — the authentic relationship.
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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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The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.
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In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.
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Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.
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When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.
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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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It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.
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May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.
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There are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in the Christ event/redemption and creation.
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God cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with grace and love. God makes us happy, as only children can be happy.
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Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?
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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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The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed the Psalter and now it has become his prayer for all time...we understand how the Psalter can be prayer to God and yet God's own Word, precisely because here we encounter the praying Christ...because those who pray the psalms are joining in with the prayer of Jesus Christ, their prayer reaches the ears of God. Christ has become their intercessor...
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Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
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Born:
February 4, 1906
Died:
April 9, 1945
(aged 39)
Bio:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church.
Known for:
The Cost of Discipleship (1937)
Life Together (1939)
Letters and papers from prison
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Sanctorum communio
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