Christian Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus'…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The brother is a burden to the Christian, precisely because he is a Christian. For the pagan the other person never becomes…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin,…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The cross is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering which every man must experience is the call to abandon the attachments…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is the idea that "grace" did it all for me so I do not need to change my lifestyle. The…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak.…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The otherworldliness of the Christian life ought, Luther concluded, to be manifested in the very midst of the world, in the Christian…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Let the Christian remain in the world, not because of the good gifts of creation, nor because of his responsibility for the…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Second, a Christian comes to others only through Jesus Christ. Among men there is strife. ‘He is our peace’, says Paul of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer