It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“One doesn’t cling anxiously to life, but neither does one throw it lightly away. One is content with measured time and does… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Do and dare what is right, not swayed by the whim of the moment. Bravely take hold of the real, not dallying… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The clergy must live solely on the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Each morning is a new beginning of our life. Each day is a finished whole. The present day marks the boundary of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“An image needs a living object, and a copy can only be formed from a model. Either man models himself on the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“It is not that God is the spectator and sharer of our present life, howsoever important that is; but rather that we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Therefore, let those who until now have had the privilege of living a Christian life together with other Christians praise God’s grace… — 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
