Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

In 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.

The 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.

No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.

The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.

Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.