Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Contrary to all my own opinions and convictions, Jesus Christ will tell me what love toward the brethren really is.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience. — 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… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The call goes forth, and is at once followed by the response of obedience. The response of the disciples is an act… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“How is it possible to live the life of faith when we grow weary of prayer, when we lose our taste for… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I'm still discovering, right up to this moment, that it is only by living completely in this world that one learns to… — 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 knows nothing of those qualms about good works, by which we only try to excuse ourselves and justify our evil works. The Bible never draws the antithesis between faith and good works so sharply as to maintain that… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God's coming at Christmas that we no longer feel… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without… — 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
“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
“When people complain, for instance, that they find it hard to believe, it is a sign of deliberate or unconscious disobedience... The… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“God has prepared for Himself one great song of praise throughout eternity, and those who enter the community of God join in… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“What is true is that in all these despairing and strained efforts to believe, what we really wanted was not to believe. That is, we didn’t want that which is the first requirement of faith, namely, to surrender ourselves totally, not to think of ourselves anymore, to extinguish completely our need for recognition and recognize God alone, to put our… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
“The new situation must be created, in which it is possible to believe on Jesus as God incarnate; that is the impossible… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The truth is that so long as we hold both sides of the proposition together they contain nothing inconsistent with right belief,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. — 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 it comes, it is not an accident, but a necessity. It is not the sort of suffering which is inseparable from this mortal life, but the suffering which is an essential part of the specifically Christian… — 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 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
![“The Reformation biblical faith in God[50] had radically desacralized [entgöttert] the world. Thus the ground was prepared in which rational and empirical science could blossom; and even though the natural scientists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were believing Christians, the…” quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6b2/dietrich-bonhoeffer-303_christianity_the-reformation-biblical-faith-in-god-50_557399.jpg)
