Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The only way to understand the Psalms is on your knees, the whole congregation praying the words of the Psalms with all… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“As far as we are concerned, there is no dislike, no personal tension, no disunity or strife that cannot be overcome by… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“How is it possible to live the life of faith when we grow weary of prayer, when we lose our taste for… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“But it is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself. For then… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Lord, whatsoever this day may bring, Thy name be praised. Be gracious unto me and help me. Grant me strength to bear… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
But they all stood beneath the cross, enemies and believers, doubters and cowards, revilers and devoted followers. His prayer, in that hour,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed the Psalter and now… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The person who waits upon moods in impoverished. If the painter only wanted to paint when in the mood for it, he… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The flesh resists this daily humiliation, first by a frontal attack, and later by hiding itself under the words of the spirit… — 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
The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Only in Jesus are we able to pray, and with Him we also know that we shall be heard. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of… — 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
