The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“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
God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.... — 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
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
“As you gave the ring to one another and have now received it a 2nd time from the hand of the pastor,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“They get married, but their marriage will look quite different from marriage as the world understands it. Christian marriage will be undertaken… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
All are called to be what in the reality of God they already are. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Perception, knowledge, and truth without love are nothing. They are not truth, for truth is God, and God is love. Therefore, truth… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy. — 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
A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God's coming at Christmas that we no longer feel… — 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
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
When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people. — 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
“Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was… — 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
