It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I fear that Christians who stand with only one leg upon earth also stand with only one leg in heaven (12 August 1943).” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God wants to see human beings, not ghosts who shun the world. . . . Our marriage must be a 'yes' to… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“If it is I who determine where God is to be found, then I shall always find a God who corresponds to… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“It is not that God is the spectator and sharer of our present life, howsoever important that is; but rather that we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche could have arisen only from the soil of the German Reformation. Here, the contradiction between the natural and grace is starkly… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“They wander on earth and live in heaven, and although they are weak, they protect the world; they taste of peace in… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected. In the wilderness God gave Israel the manna every day, and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The weaknesses of human nature appear more clearly in a storm than in the quiet flow of calmer times. Among the overwhelming… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The most experienced psychologist or observer of human nature knows infinitely less of the human heart than the simplest Christian who lives… — 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
![“The weaknesses of human nature appear more clearly in a storm than in the quiet flow of calmer times. Among the overwhelming majority of people, anxiety, greed,[37.] lack of independence, and brutality show themselves to be the mainspring of behavior in the face of unsuspected chance and threats…” quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/48d/dietrich-bonhoeffer-303_freedom_the-weaknesses-of-human-nature-appear-mo_1455266.jpg)
