Gratitude

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Boardman Tree Farm, Oregon. Photo by Jay Huang, licensed under CC BY 2.0

"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." - Deitrich Bonhoeffer

Deitrich Bonhoeffer (4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential, and his book The Cost of Discipleship became a modern classic. Bonhoeffer was known for his strong resistance to the Nazi dictatorship. He was arrested in April 1943, later was transferred to a Nazi concentration camp. After being associated with the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he was quickly tried, along with other accused plotters and then executed by hanging on 9 April 1945 at the end of the Nazi regime.