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
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.
community christian-community
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.
littles little-things christian-thanksgiving
How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
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.
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.
christian jesus powerful
There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become truly afraid. These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ....No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian theology finds its beginnings in the miracle of miracles, that God became human.
christianity christ discipleship
Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
christian jesus mean
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
god christian gracious
If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.
christian self humanity
The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.
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.
christian mean men
Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.
christian community church
The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.