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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

German Lutheran theologian and pastor whose works concern Christianity in the modern world; an active opponent of Nazism, he was arrested and sent to Buchenwald and later executed (1906-1945)

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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

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If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

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It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

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Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

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To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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