There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God wants to see human beings, not ghosts who shun the world. . . . Our marriage must be a 'yes' to… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may… — 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
The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. — 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
