Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

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  • The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

    Prayer   Simple   Praying  
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.35, SCM Press
  • Who am I? this or the other? Am I one person today and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others, and before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling? Or is something within me still like a beaten army fleeing in disorder from a victory already achieved? Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine. Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!

    Lonely   Hypocrite   Army  
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Light   People   Empathy  
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.10, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.52, Simon and Schuster
  • The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.132, Simon and Schuster
  • There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

  • As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.79, SCM Press
  • The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

    Worry   New Day   Anxiety  
  • The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.

    Honor   Suffering   Lord  
  • Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”
  • The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth.

    Crosses   Knows  
  • The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods . . . . His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather than inflict it on others. They maintain fellowship where others would break it off. They renounce hatred and wrong. In so doing they overcome evil with good, and establish the peace of God in the midst of a world of war and hate.

    Peace   Hate   War  
  • Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. Christian should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong.

  • Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.129, SCM Press
  • Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share of suffering and rejection. But each has a different share: some God deems worthy of the highest form of suffering, and gives them the grace of martyrdom, while others he does not allow to be tempted above that which they are able to bear. But it is the one and the same cross in every case.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.44, SCM Press
  • If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.115, SCM Press
  • Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?

    Enemy   Midst  
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, SCM Press
  • It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.

    Church   Tasks   Youth  
  • Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

    Men   Order   Law  
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Johann Christoph Hampe (1977). “Prayers from prison: prayers and poems”, Not Avail
  • There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become truly afraid. These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ....No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian theology finds its beginnings in the miracle of miracles, that God became human.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jana Riess, O. C. Dean, Jr. (2010). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”
  • Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.21, SCM Press
  • 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.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.129, SCM Press
  • We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.

    God   Problem   Should  
  • In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

    Men   Firsts   Steps  
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.22, SCM Press
  • When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.22, SCM Press
  • Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.

    "Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p.88, 1937.
  • Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

    Believe   Men   Obedience  
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.23, SCM Press
  • If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

    Humility   Way   Sin  
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.74, SCM Press
  • The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it.

    Tired   Grace   World  
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “The Way to Freedom: 1935-1939, from the Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, New York : Harper & Row
  • The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.

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