Humans Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is not free from human beings but for them.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God’s will and guidance. It is…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world,…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God wants to see human beings, not ghosts who shun the world. . . . Our marriage must be a 'yes' to…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in…

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Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage,…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer