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
church
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.
church tasks youth
It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.
morning light church
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
christian community church
The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.
father war church
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
church ordinary helping
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
church wheels victim
The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.
christian recovery church
Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.
loneliness people church
Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.
mean men church
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
creative full human lived lost time
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
bring clear crucial decide form nature opinion people weak
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
people waiting satisfied
Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
new-beginnings past people
God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.