"If your opponent has a conscience, then follow……" — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer."
More Bonhoeffer Quotes
- Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren… — Jean Vanier
- Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom. — Eric Metaxas
- Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) — Eric Metaxas
- Bonhoeffer knew that twisting the Truth to sell it more effectively was inexcusable. For Bonhoeffer the challenge was to present… — Eric Metaxas
- I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer kneeling on the floor praying fervently to God. I was most deeply moved by the way… — Eberhard Bethge
- Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel. — G. C. Berkouwer
- Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls… — Mitt Romney
- ...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he… — Eric Metaxas
- Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to… — Eric Metaxas
- . A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol. Dietrich Bonhoeffer — Abraham Lincoln