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
“As Christians, we needn’t be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of… — 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 scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice; they preach to us… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak.… — 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
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
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“We shall be judged according to our works – this is why we are exhorted to do good works. The Bible assuredly… — 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 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
“The religion of Christ is not a tidbit after One's bread; on the contrary, it is the bread or it is nothing.… — 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
“In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The Reformation biblical faith in God[50] had radically desacralized [entgöttert] the world. Thus the ground was prepared in which rational and empirical… — 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
We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Confess your sins to one another” (James 5:16). Those who remain alone with their evil are left utterly alone. It is possible… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Christianity without the living Jesus Christ remains necessarily a Christianity without discipleship; and a Christianity without discipleship is always a Christianity without… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“But it is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself. For then… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Not the way to God but the way of God to humanity: that is the sum of Christianity.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Second, a Christian comes to others only through Jesus Christ. Among men there is strife. ‘He is our peace’, says Paul of… — 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
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men; its business today will… — 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
