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
A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey. — 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
It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must… — 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
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
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
As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards… — 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
“If we want to be Christians, we must have some share in Christ’s large-heartedness by acting with responsibility and in freedom when… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
One who loves his community destroys community; one who loves its members builds community. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Contrary to all my own opinions and convictions, Jesus Christ will tell me what love toward the brethren really is.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with grace and love. God makes us happy, as only children can be happy. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
All are called to be what in the reality of God they already are. — 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
