Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoefferwas a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential, and his book The Cost of Discipleship became a modern classic...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth4 February 1906
CountryGermany
christian brother mean
The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.
jesus two trying
Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
soul looks imperfect
The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.
jesus men call-me
Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.
godly christian-inspirational christianity
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
light people empathy
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
may mercy
May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.
godly following-christ christianity
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
real liars lying
It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.
christian grace ruins
The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
believe heart opposites
Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. The heart which clings to goods receives with them the choking burden of worry. Worry collects treasures, and treasures produce more worries. We desire to secure our lives with earthly goods; we want our worrying to make us worry-free, but the truth is the opposite. The chains which bind us to earthly goods, the clutches which hold the goods tight, are themselves worries.
faithful daily-life great-things
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
pain real godly
God 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.
inspiring faith inspiration
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.