“It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Perception, knowledge, and truth without love are nothing. They are not truth, for truth is God, and God is love. Therefore, truth… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you still think you ought to think out beforehand and know what you ought to do. To that there is only… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“What is worse than doing evil, is being evil” (Ethics, p.67). To lie is wrong, but what is worse than the lie… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The truth is that so long as we hold both sides of the proposition together they contain nothing inconsistent with right belief,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their… — 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
