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
wise reality men
The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
music character joy
Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.
god spiritual jobs
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
christian attachment world
The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.
pain grieving trying
Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.
jesus real responsibility
A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
christian jesus mean
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
god christian gracious
If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.
men reason-why incarnation
The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.
christian self humanity
The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.
cost salvation discipleship
Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life
self judging grace
Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.
lonely hypocrite army
Who am I? this or the other? Am I one person today and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others, and before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling? Or is something within me still like a beaten army fleeing in disorder from a victory already achieved? Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine. Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!
long looks armor
As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future.