Quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The person who's in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer