Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
... there are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The love for our enemies takes us along the way of the cross and into fellowship with the Crucified. The more we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christ became our Brother in order to help us. Through him our brother has become Christ for us in the power and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the… — 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 Image
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 Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
...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 Image
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
