Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

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• If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.

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  Christian, Bystanders, Hands

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• Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

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  Evil, Silence, Faces

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• Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

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  Christian, Should, Disbelief

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• Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

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  Speak, Evil God

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• Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

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  Sin, Discipleship, Avoiding

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• Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life

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  Cost, Salvation, Discipleship

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• The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

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  People, Community, Vision

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• Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. Christian should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong.

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  Christian, Peace, Strong

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• There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply hold out and endure it. At first that sounds very hard, but at the same time it is also a great comfort. For to the extent the emptiness truly remains unfilled one remains connected to the other person through it. It is wrong to say that God fills the emptiness. God in no way fills it but much more leaves it precisely unfilled and thus helps us preserve -- even in pain -- the authentic relationship.

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  Pain, Firsts, Sound

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• Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

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  Jesus, Discipline, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.

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  May, Mercy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.137, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.

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  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Life Is

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• Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.

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  Mother, Simple, Issues

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

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  Courage, Wheels, Injustice

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• Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.

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  Comfort, Trouble, Comfortable

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• We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.

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  Reading, Men, Daily Tasks

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1996). “Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible”, Fortress Pr

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• In me there is darkness, But with You there is light; I am lonely, but You do not leave me; I am feeble in heart, but with You there is help; I am restless, but with You there is peace. In me there is bitterness, but with You there is patience; I do not understand Your ways, But You know the way for me.” “Lord Jesus Christ, You were poor And in distress, a captive and forsaken as I am. You know all man’s troubles; You abide with me When all men fail me; You remember and seek me; It is Your will that I should know You And turn to You. Lord, I hear Your call and follow; Help me.

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  Lonely, Jesus, Heart

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• Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

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  Godly, Following Christ, Christianity

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.17, SCM Press

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• The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

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  Nature, Children, Accountability

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• We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

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  Schedules, Assuming, Ready

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• The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.

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  Brother, Listening, Fellowship With God

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• We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

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  Inspiring, Faith, Inspiration

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.76, SCM Press

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• Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

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  Love Is, Judging Yourself, Evil

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.129, SCM Press

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• Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.

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  Jesus, Men, Call Me

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.

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  Simple, Obedience, Obedience To God

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