Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERYour life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERWe are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERI can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERBy judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERBeing free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFEROur eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERA 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.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERIf you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERIt is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERGod loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERIt is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERGod is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERJesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERNeighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER