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
How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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
Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.... — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
All are called to be what in the reality of God they already are. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people. — 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
