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
thinking here-and-now
When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me
christian law doe
It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.
god christian world
Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.
men order people
A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.
suffering earth christ
The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.
godly men christ
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
needs christ
I need the Christ that is in you, and you need the Christ that is in me.
lonely jesus heart
In me there is darkness, But with You there is light; I am lonely, but You do not leave me; I am feeble in heart, but with You there is help; I am restless, but with You there is peace. In me there is bitterness, but with You there is patience; I do not understand Your ways, But You know the way for me.” “Lord Jesus Christ, You were poor And in distress, a captive and forsaken as I am. You know all man’s troubles; You abide with me When all men fail me; You remember and seek me; It is Your will that I should know You And turn to You. Lord, I hear Your call and follow; Help me.
gratitude wish life-is
Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.
courage wheels injustice
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
prayer heart poverty
The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
christian fellowship members
A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.
lonely hypocrite army
Who am I? this or the other? Am I one person today and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others, and before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling? Or is something within me still like a beaten army fleeing in disorder from a victory already achieved? Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine. Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!
real doe world
God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.