Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Only in Jesus are we able to pray, and with Him we also know that we shall be heard. — 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
The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer… — 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
We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed the Psalter and now… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in… — 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
The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we… — 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
