“Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Over against the successful, God sanctifies pain, lowliness, failure, poverty, loneliness, and despair in the cross of Christ. Not that all this… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself—a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The form of the crucified disarms all thinking aimed at success, for it is a denial of judgment. Neither the triumph of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.” — 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
