Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone. — 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 church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian… — 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
A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ;… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“[Paul] has no intention to instruct the Christian community about the task and responsibility of government. His entire concern is with the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Just as Christians should not be constantly feeling the pulse of their spiritual life, so too the Christian community has not been… — 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
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
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
“Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, there is no sin in thought, word, or deed, no matter how personal or secret, that does not… — 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
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
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
“The Christian, however, must bear the burden of a brother. He must suffer and endure the brother. It is only when he… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The Christian community is not a spiritual sanatorium. The person who comes into a fellowship because he is running away from himself… — 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
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
“Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The otherworldliness of the Christian life ought, Luther concluded, to be manifested in the very midst of the world, in the Christian… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“In the Christian community thankfulness is just what it is anywhere else in the Christian life. Only he who gives thanks for… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person has to say.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The undiscerning observer may think that this mixture of ideal and reality, of the human and spiritual, is most likely to be… — 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
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