Love Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only the believing obey, only the obedient believe

— 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

Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

— 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

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

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Perception, knowledge, and truth without love are nothing. They are not truth, for truth is God, and God is love. Therefore, truth…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“As you gave the ring to one another and have now received it a 2nd time from the hand of the pastor,…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The love for our enemies takes us along the way of the cross and into fellowship with the Crucified. The more we…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God's coming at Christmas that we no longer feel…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“They get married, but their marriage will look quite different from marriage as the world understands it. Christian marriage will be undertaken…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins…

— 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

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Marriage is more than your love for each other. It has a higher dignity and power, for it is God's holy ordinance,…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love…

— 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

“But what kind of love is this that is so unaware of itself that it can be hidden until the day of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“It is hardly surprising that the harbinger of God's love has been accused of hatred of the human race. Who has a…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer