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
Dietrich Bonhoeffer quotes about
jesus brethren
In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.
community brethren
He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.
people waiting satisfied
Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
community done christ
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
desire bread doe
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
christian father anxiety
But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
men expression law
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
life happiness success
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
strong men issues
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
speak evil-god
Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
church
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.
festivals supreme
Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.
sin unbelief
There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.
believe obedient
Only the believing obey, only the obedient believe