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The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.
— 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
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
The Psalter is the great school of prayer.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.
— 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
It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.
— 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
The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him.
— 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
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
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
Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.
— 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
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in 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
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
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
Only what is essential must be said.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
— 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
How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
— 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
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
God is not free from human beings but for 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
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
O endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
[...]this whole world is sustained only for the sake of Jesus Christ, his Word, and his message.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The sermon has been reduced to parenthetical church remarks about newspaper events,
— 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
If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbor, for that is where God comes to you.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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
There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
With the birth of Jesus, the great kingdom of peace has begun.
— 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 deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
— Eric Metaxas
For we cannot speak of the beginning; where the beginning begins our thinking stops, it comes to an end.
— 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
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
Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.
— 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
it is not our will but God's will alone that matters.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
— 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
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
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
The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
— 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
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
— 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
The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.
— 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
The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ
— 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