Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works. — 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
Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes. — 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
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
But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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
Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it is… — 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… — 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
“Therefore let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers' (Rom 13.1). The Christian must not be drawn to the bearers… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“If we want to be Christians, we must have some share in Christ’s large-heartedness by acting with responsibility and in freedom when… — 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
The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without… — 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
If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power. — 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
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus'… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service. — 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… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The brother is a burden to the Christian, precisely because he is a Christian. For the pagan the other person never becomes… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In the first place, the church can ask the state whether its actions are legitimate and in accordance with its character as… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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 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
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
