Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ... — 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do… — 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
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
“Therefore, let those who until now have had the privilege of living a Christian life together with other Christians praise God’s grace… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“For the rest of mankind to be with Christ means death, but for Christians it is a means of grace. Baptism is… — 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
Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An… — 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
“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
“Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Anybody who lives beneath the Cross and who has discerned in the Cross of Jesus the utter wickedness of all men and… — 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
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
“Luther's return from the cloister to the world was the worst blow the world had suffered since the days of early Christianity.” — 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
“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
“Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.” — 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
“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
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
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
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
...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
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“From now on there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
“The scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice; they preach to us in every… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
