The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified. — 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 must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Through the life and death of Jesus Christ, history becomes not the transient bearer of eternal values but, for the first time,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“They wander on earth and live in heaven, and although they are weak, they protect the world; they taste of peace in… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Just as Christians should not be constantly feeling the pulse of their spiritual life, so too the Christian community has not been… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth.… — 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
The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world… — 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… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The cross always simultaneously means rejection, and that the disgrace of suffering is part of the cross. Being expelled, despised, and abandoned… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“When He was challenged by Jesus to accept a life of voluntary poverty, the rich young man knew he was faced with… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Unless we have the courage to fight for a revival of wholesome reserve between man and man, we shall perish in an… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“It is easily forgotten that the fellowship of Christian brethren is a gift of grace, a gift of the Kingdom of God… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The otherworldliness of the Christian life ought, Luther concluded, to be manifested in the very midst of the world, in the Christian… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The undiscerning observer may think that this mixture of ideal and reality, of the human and spiritual, is most likely to be… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“And what does the text inform us about the content of discipleship? Follow me, run along behind me! That is all. To… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“In the Christian community thankfulness is just what it is anywhere else in the Christian life. Only he who gives thanks for… — 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
“The flesh resists this daily humiliation, first by a frontal attack, and later by hiding itself under the words of the spirit… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Who am I? They often tell me I would step from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, like a squire from his… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“At the end of a life spent in the pursuit of knowledge Faust has to confess: "I now see that we can… — 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
