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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERNot 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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERYour life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERA God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERBut 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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThrough our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThings do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERA false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERAdvent creates people, new people.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERStrict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThis is the end. For me the beginning of life.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERNothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERChristianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERGrace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERIt is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER