We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people. — 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
Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves. — 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
When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people. — 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
God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking… — 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians because we are talking when… — 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
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
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
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
...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
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“From now on there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
“The scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice; they preach to us in every… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
