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The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises ... — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only the suffering God can help. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Why does the Old Testament law never punish anyone by depriving him of his freedom? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected ... Suffering and being rejected are not the same. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I think that even in this place we ought to live as if we had no wishes and no future, and just be our true selves. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Luther's return from the cloister to the world was the worst blow the world had suffered since the days of early Christianity. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Bonhoeffer said it's not about hero worship, but intimacy with God. — Jan Karon

It was Dietrich Bonhoeffer who more than anybody else realized that nothing less than a return to the Christian faith could save Germany. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbor, for that is where God comes to you. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Are you afraid of God's wrath? Then go to the child in the manger and receive there the peace of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only when Christian faith in God is lost do people feel compelled to make use of all means - even criminal - to force the victory of their cause. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel. — G. C. Berkouwer

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The richness of God's Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Bonhoeffer knew that when the church stops talking about Jesus, it has nothing to say. And when it assumes dominance, it's not talking about Jesus. — Samuel Wells

God's word to me - new every day - in the infinite riches of interpretation. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only what is essential must be said. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love ... that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

church must bear witness to Jesus Christ as living lord, and it must do so in a world that has turned away from Christ after knowing him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is never in the world in any way except in his absolute transcendence of it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ ... — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is not free from human beings but for them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Bonhoeffer did not expect his life to be a tidy edifice of perfection. — Samuel Wells

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom. — Eric Metaxas

The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

it is not our will but God's will alone that matters. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history ... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Since the appearance of Christ, ethics can be concerned with only one thing: to partake in the reality of the fulfilled will of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

But if faith is only for the future, there will be no faith, for like manna, faith saved spoils. — Andrew Root

Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Whoever despises another human being will never be able to make anything of him. Nothing of what we despise in another is itself foreign to us. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Suffering means being cut off from God. Therefore those who live in communion with him cannot really suffer. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Through the life and death of Jesus Christ, history becomes not the transient bearer of eternal values but, for the first time, thoroughly temporal. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The more I begin to love the commandments of God in creation and word, the more present they will be for me in every hour. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nothing can be more cruel than that leniency which abandons others to their sin. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We have been silent witnesses to — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. Dietrich Bonhoeffer — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer