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
love judging envy
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
christian prayer knowing
It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty.
battle weapons way
Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.
selfish mean destiny
There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God's commandment. Wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of almighty God. Not trying to direct it for selfish purposes. Battles are won not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads to the cross.
christian attachment world
The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.
men reason-why incarnation
The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.
jesus real responsibility
A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
christian foe thick
So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
positive spring responsibility
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
jesus letters scripture
Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.
real people evil
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.
faith atheist godly
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
christian jesus mean
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
gratitude achievement easy
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.