“The sermon has been reduced to parenthetical church remarks about newspaper events,” — 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
“Discipleship is commitment to Christ. Because Christ exists, he must be followed.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of… — 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
It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God. — 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
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The call goes forth, and is at once followed by the response of obedience. The response of the disciples is an act… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“It is solely the form of Christ that matters, not any form besides Christ’s own. The church is the human being who… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Ethics as formation, then, is the venture of speaking about the form of Christ taking form in our world neither abstractly nor… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if… — 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… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Our church, which has been fighting in these years only for its self-preservation, as though that were an end in itself, is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“For the rest of mankind to be with Christ means death, but for Christians it is a means of grace. Baptism is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The cross is not the suffering tied to natural existence, but the suffering tied to being Christians. The cross is never simply… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“But the disciple had the advantage over the Pharisee in that his doing of the law is in fact perfect. How is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Because I am a Christian, therefore, every day in which I do not penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God's Word… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left… — 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
“Barth was the first theologian to begin the criticism of religion...but he set in its place the positivist doctrine of revelation which… — 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
Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Luther's return from the cloister to the world was the worst blow the world had suffered since the days of early Christianity.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, it is the free grace of the resurrected One that now also goes after the individual, overcomes the doubter, and creates… — 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
“The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“It is not at all surprising that the disciples imagined that the law had been abrogated, when Jesus made promises like this.… — 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
