Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find… — 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 a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest upon him, finds his burden easy,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly… — 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
