The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren. — 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
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
“Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued. — 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
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
Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace. — 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“If in the middle of an air raid God sends out the gospel call to his kingdom in baptism, it will be… — 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
“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
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
“It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their… — 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
“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
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
“...do we realize that this cheap grace has turned back upon us like a boomerang? The price we are having to pay… — 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
“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
A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. — 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
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I fear that Christians who stand with only one leg upon earth also stand with only one leg in heaven (12 August 1943).” — 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
“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
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
Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. — 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
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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