How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbor, for that is where God comes to you. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
All are called to be what in the reality of God they already are. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me — 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
