The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin. — 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
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person.… — 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
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts… — 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
If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Who am I? this or the other? Am I one person today and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek and find… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need… — 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
There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so.… — 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
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
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
