Quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.
- 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
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer