Quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
- 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
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
- 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
Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.
- 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