Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we… — 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
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in… — 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
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
Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ;… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property… — 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
