Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“All that the follower of Jesus has to do is to make sure that his obedience, following and love are entirely spontaneous… — 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
“In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Marriage is more than your love for each other. It has a higher dignity and power, for it is God's holy ordinance,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“But what kind of love is this that is so unaware of itself that it can be hidden until the day of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
One who loves his community destroys community; one who loves its members builds community. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love… — 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
