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
brethren
The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.
night cold hell
Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.
christian grace ruins
The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
gratitude memories past
...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a thorn but as a precious gift deep within, a hidden treasure of which one can always be certain.
silence speech
Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.
long decision eternity
The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.
successful enthusiasm causes
And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.
remains incomparable values
There remains an experience of incomparable value.
turns humans
God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away....
suffering christ crosses
The cross is suffering with Christ.
reality significant factual
To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
unsolved-problems knows
We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know.
reality
All are called to be what in the reality of God they already are.
song want facts
The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.