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
community christian-community
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.
believe obedient
Only the believing obey, only the obedient believe
happy-life men christ
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
littles little-things christian-thanksgiving
How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
obedience obeying
You can only learn what obedience is by obeying
brother thinking keeping-quiet
Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.
believe
Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey.
tasks holy knows
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
jesus answers helping
Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ...
church tasks youth
It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.
giving promise want
God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises...
love-is judging-yourself judging-others
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.
christian community grace
It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.
jesus community christ
The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and His work become the one and only thing that is vital between us.