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
loneliness people church
Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.
jesus heart simple
And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is.
believe obedient
Only the believing obey, only the obedient believe
love-is judging-yourself judging-others
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.
community christian-community
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.
evil silence faces
Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.
life-changing might world
After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.
jesus matter significance
Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
mean expectations pants
Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.
festivals supreme
Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.
men order law
Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.
prayer odds vanity
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
believe
Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey.
hands desire sake
Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.