A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises... — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the… — 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
Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation.… — 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
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The proclamation of grace has its limits. Grace may not be proclaimed to anyone who does not recognize or distinguish or desire… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the… — 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 God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and… — 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
The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be… — 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
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
