Quotes about Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.

No one can speak of the beginning but the one who was in the beginning. Thus the Bible begins with God's free affirmation, free acknowledgment, free revelation of himself: In the beginning God created...

The fact that the fool is often stubborn must not mislead us into thinking that he is independent.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a great realist. He was one of the few who quickly understood, even before Hitler came to power, that National Socialism was a brutal attempt to make history without God and to found it on the strength of man alone.

Cheap grace therefore amounts to a denial of the living Word of God, in fact, a denial of the Incarnation of the Word of God.