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As you gave the ring to one another and have now received it a 2nd time from the hand of the pastor, so love comes from you, but marriage from above, from God. As high as God is above man, so high are the sanctity, the rights, and the promise of love. It is not your love tht sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
— 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.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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