Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus'… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. Fanatics think that their single-minded principles qualify them to do battle with… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone.… — 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
“The world is not divided between Christ and the devil; it is completely the world of Christ, whether it recognizes this or… — 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
“What is worse than doing evil, is being evil” (Ethics, p.67). To lie is wrong, but what is worse than the lie… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In… — 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
