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
cost salvation discipleship
Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life
christian needs helping
The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth.
gratitude giving thankfulness
We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
emotion
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
music character joy
Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.
self denial asceticism
To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'
marriage journey joy
Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life’s journey…
jesus brethren
In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.
god spiritual jobs
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
sin persons isolated
The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him.
christianity christ discipleship
Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
jesus son israel
It is not that God's help and presence must still be proved in our life; rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, in God's Son Jesus Christ, than to discover what God intends for us today. The fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than the fact that I will die. And the fact that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead is the sole ground of my hope that I, too, will be raised on the day of judgment
life hands today
Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.
suffering helping
Only the suffering God can help.