Quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.
- 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
Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?
- 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
When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely to love our neighbor.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer