If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“God sends his Son – here lies the only remedy. It is not enough to give man a new philosophy or better… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience. — 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
Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“...do we realize that this cheap grace has turned back upon us like a boomerang? The price we are having to pay… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going… — 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
“Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at anything, but bids them look… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“It is only when one knows the unutterability of the name of God that one can utter the name of Jesus Christ;… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Once again, Jesus calls those who follow him to share his passion. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“God did not make this person as I would have made him. He did not give him to me as a brother… — 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
Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from… — 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
