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“Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.”

Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

German pastor, theologian, philosopher, and member of the resistance against the Nazis. Born on February 4, 1906, in Germany, he was executed on April 9, 1945 in a concentration camp. more

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