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
church ordinary helping
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
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.
spiritual men needs
Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem of himself. He can cope with every danger except the danger of human nature itself. In the last resort it all turns upon man.
holiday meals calling
Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
kindness religion sin
There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.
christian talking people
Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians because we are talking when we should be listening.
wisdom mean heart
The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.
life christian mouths
God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.
jesus law evil
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.