“The scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice; they preach to us… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The temple of God is the holy people in Jesus Christ. The Body of Christ is the living temple of God and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The mysterious, invisible authority of the divine child over human hearts is more solidly grounded then the visible and resplendent power of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The love for our enemies takes us along the way of the cross and into fellowship with the Crucified. The more we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved, but rather God's presence and help have… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is not that God's help and presence must still be proved in our life; rather God's presence and help have been… — 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
“Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
But they all stood beneath the cross, enemies and believers, doubters and cowards, revilers and devoted followers. His prayer, in that hour,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed the Psalter and now… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ... — 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
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
