Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics Quotes

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

Principles are only tools in the hands of God they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out.

The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.