Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoefferwas a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential, and his book The Cost of Discipleship became a modern classic...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth4 February 1906
CountryGermany
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Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.
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There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God's commandment. Wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of almighty God. Not trying to direct it for selfish purposes. Battles are won not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads to the cross.
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The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
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Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life
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The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth.
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Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.
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Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life’s journey…
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If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
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The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him.
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Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.