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
morning prayer order
The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.
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God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises...
tasks holy knows
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
obedience obeying
You can only learn what obedience is by obeying
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God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.
jesus answers helping
Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ...
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How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
jesus community christ
The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and His work become the one and only thing that is vital between us.
church
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.
happy-life men christ
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
sin unbelief
There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.
christian community grace
It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.
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It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.
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Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.