Life Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“This is the end. For me the beginning of life.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent; one waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the other -…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered.…

— 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

God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The cross is not the suffering tied to natural existence, but the suffering tied to being Christians. The cross is never simply…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“They wander on earth and live in heaven, and although they are weak, they protect the world; they taste of peace in…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth.…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Just as Christians should not be constantly feeling the pulse of their spiritual life, so too the Christian community has not been…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The cross always simultaneously means rejection, and that the disgrace of suffering is part of the cross. Being expelled, despised, and abandoned…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“When He was challenged by Jesus to accept a life of voluntary poverty, the rich young man knew he was faced with…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“It is only when one knows the unutterability of the name of God that one can utter the name of Jesus Christ;…

— 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

“To be called to a life of extraordinary quality, to live up to it, and yet to be unconscious of it is…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The undiscerning observer may think that this mixture of ideal and reality, of the human and spiritual, is most likely to be…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“And what does the text inform us about the content of discipleship? Follow me, run along behind me! That is all. To…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“In the Christian community thankfulness is just what it is anywhere else in the Christian life. Only he who gives thanks for…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The flesh resists this daily humiliation, first by a frontal attack, and later by hiding itself under the words of the spirit…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“God sends his Son – here lies the only remedy. It is not enough to give man a new philosophy or better…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Who am I? They often tell me I would step from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, like a squire from his…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer