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
community done christ
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
christmas doors cells
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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.
christian exercise dominion
the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
jesus grace christ
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
community christian-community
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.
happy-life men christ
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
littles little-things christian-thanksgiving
How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
christian community grace
It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.
jesus community christ
The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and His work become the one and only thing that is vital between us.
christian prayer children
The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
christian reality brotherhood
Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.
christmas eye dark
...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all.
love christian listening
Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.