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
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
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 first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians because we are talking when… — 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
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
“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
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
Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and… — 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
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
God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word. — 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
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 gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Let the Christian remain in the world, not because of the good gifts of creation, nor because of his responsibility for the… — 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
Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it. — 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
