Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of… — 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
“Those who wish even to focus on the problem of a Christian ethic are faced with an outrageous demand-from the outset they… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In the first place, the church can ask the state whether its actions are legitimate and in accordance with its character as… — 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
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
