Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified… — 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
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
