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 richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart. — 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
The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost...… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In me there is darkness, But with You there is light; I am lonely, but You do not leave me; I am… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage,… — 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
When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek and find… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in… — 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
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
