Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERHow would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
-
-
The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER -
Things 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 BONHOEFFER -
Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER -
We 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 BONHOEFFER -
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER -
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER -
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER -
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER -
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER -
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER -
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER -
I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER -
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER -
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER -
A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER