“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
“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
“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
“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
Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither 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
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 responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The cross is not the suffering tied to natural existence, but the suffering tied to being Christians. The cross is never simply… — 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
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent; one waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the other -… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“To be called to a life of extraordinary quality, to live up to it, and yet to be unconscious of it is… — 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
“Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the… — 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
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
