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.
community christian-community
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.
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 community path
Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
community brethren
He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.
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.
people community vision
The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.
prayer community baths
Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.
christian jesus community
Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.
differences community silence
The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.
jesus community
A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.
community members
One who loves his community destroys community; one who loves its members builds community.
people community persons
A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.