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
speak evil-god
Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
faith atheist godly
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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.
god christian gracious
If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.
godly men christ
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
god christian world
Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.
godly christian-inspirational christianity
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
godly following-christ christianity
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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.
god problem outstanding
We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.
men mercy-of-god mercy
Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.
simple obedience obedience-to-god
Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.
thanksgiving thank-god may
Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.
god attitude holiday
God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.