Men Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work,…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest upon him, finds his burden easy,…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . .…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer