Quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.
- 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
Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Every call of Christ leads into death.
- 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
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer