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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes: So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
         

So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.


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