People Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Advent creates people, new people.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians because we are talking when…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ;…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait…

— 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

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. Fanatics think that their single-minded principles qualify them to do battle with…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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