The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their… — 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 earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I need the Christ that is in you, and you need the Christ that is in me. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“What determines our brotherhood is what that man is by reason of Christ. Our community with one another consists solely in what… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ... — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek and find… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Cheap grace is the idea that "grace" did it all for me so I do not need to change my lifestyle. The… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In me there is darkness, But with You there is light; I am lonely, but You do not leave me; I am… — 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
