Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at… — 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
If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbor, for that is where God comes to you. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me — 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
