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London, 1939: “The forsythia and dark mauve lilacs bloomed enchantingly, luxuriantly, in the old gardens in Forest Hills and the daffodils gleamed from the broad expanses of the parks.
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I thought,” Dietrich wrote, imagining he would soon be executed, “I myself could learn to have faith by trying to live something like a saintly life… Later on I discovered and am still discovering, that one only learns to have faith by living in the full this-worldliness of life. If one has completely renounced making something of oneself …then one throws oneself completely into the arms of God, and this is what I call this-worldliness: living fully in the midst of life’s tasks, questions, succe
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A discussion group designed for comments and thoughts inspired by a reading of Dietrich Bonhoeff…more
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