Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.
May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.
The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.
Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.
Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.
I believe that God both wills and is able to bring good out of everything, even the worst... I believe that even our mistakes and wrongdoing are not fruitless.
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me
A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.
I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word.
Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.
Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.
Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods.
Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.
