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
desire bread doe
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
pride doe add
As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his ‘Yes’ to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new – the holy estate of matrimony…
validation rejection doe
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
doe praying pastor
A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.
men faces doe
He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.
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.
sad running depressing
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
deep-water helping where-you-are
[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.
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.
jesus grace christ
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.