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
christian self discipline
Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.
lying believe men
The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word.
mistake making-mistakes life-is
The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
god attitude holiday
God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
different christianity garments
If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?
father war church
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
men grace treasure
Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods.
christian jesus self
By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.
prayer community baths
Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.
christian men world
Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.
simple obedience obedience-to-god
Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.
letting-go children vanity
Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, l honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger; whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high; whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory of God precisely in his lowliness.
men atheism hypothesis
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
men suffering obedience
It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.