The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God. — 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
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“But because Jesus is the Christ, it has to be made clear from the beginning that his word is not a doctrine… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The justification of my life before God is to live because of and toward the living, dying, and rising of Jesus Christ.” — 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 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'm still discovering, right up to this moment, that it is only by living completely in this world that one learns to… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The cross is not the suffering tied to being natural existence, but the suffering tied to being Christians. The cross is never… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“How is it possible to live the life of faith when we grow weary of prayer, when we lose our taste for… — 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
“No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of God, no one has yet heard about the realm of the… — 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
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
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The peace and seclusion of country life have already been largely undermined by the radio, the car, and the telephone, and by… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The idea that we could have avoided many of life’s difficulties if we had taken things more cautiously is too foolish to… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“It is hardly surprising that the harbinger of God's love has been accused of hatred of the human race. Who has a… — 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
“The moment we begin to feel satisfied that we are making some progress along the road of sanctification, it is all the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something… — 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
Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm. — 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
“One doesn’t cling anxiously to life, but neither does one throw it lightly away. One is content with measured time and does… — 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
