Christ became our Brother in order to help us. Through him our brother has become Christ for us in the power and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“That it is Peter, the rock of the church, who incurs guilt here immediately after his own confession to Jesus Christ and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The dividing line will run right through the confessing Church. Even if we make the confession of faith, it gives us no… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“That it is Peter, the rock of the church, who incurs guilt here immediately after his own confession to Jesus Christ and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“[...]we must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of sin to God, whether we have… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Confession is the God-given remedy for self-deception and self-indulgence. When we confess our sins before a brother-Christian, we are mortifying the pride… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want to be my own… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“In confession the break-through to community takes place. Sin demands to have a man by himself. It withdraws him from the community.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“In confession occurs the break-through to the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want to be my own… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Anybody who lives beneath the Cross and who has discerned in the Cross of Jesus the utter wickedness of all men and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
“The church can only defend its own space by fighting, not for space, but for the salvation of the world. Otherwise the church becomes… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
“To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. When… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
“There is only one church, the church of faith ruled by the word of Jesus Christ alone. This is the true catholic church that… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
“As Christians, we needn’t be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of desire for… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
“From now on there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
“The scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice; they preach to us in every… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share