When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERWhen all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERIf you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERWe must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERI can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERHaving thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERDiscipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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 BONHOEFFERThere is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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 BONHOEFFERTime is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThis is the end. For me the beginning of life.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERMay God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERYour life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERAction springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERIn the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER