Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes - Page 3

Quotes about:

• The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Life, Happiness, Success

  23 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Pain, Real, Godly

  172 Copy quote

• The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Long, Decision, Eternity

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.159, SCM Press

  26 Copy quote

• I believe that God both wills and is able to bring good out of everything, even the worst... I believe that even our mistakes and wrongdoing are not fruitless.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mistake, Believe, Able

  60 Copy quote

• Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Eye, Thinking, Security And Freedom

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.122, SCM Press

  41 Copy quote

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

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Men, Call Me

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

  112 Copy quote

• The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Goal, Lust, Purity

  38 Copy quote

• But they all stood beneath the cross, enemies and believers, doubters and cowards, revilers and devoted followers. His prayer, in that hour, and his forgiveness, was meant for them all, and for all their sins. The mercy and love of God are at work even in the midst of his enemies. It is the same Jesus Christ, who of his grace calls us to follow him, and whose grace saves the murderer who mocks him on the cross in his last hour.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Prayer, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.34, SCM Press

  173 Copy quote

• When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Thinking, Here And Now

  52 Copy quote

• There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Journey, Traveler

  32 Copy quote

• God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Giving, Promise, Doe

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Clyde E. Fant (1975). “Bonhoeffer: worldly preaching”

  16 Copy quote

• The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Listening, Firsts

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.75, SCM Press

  14 Copy quote

• We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Letters and Papers from Prison".

  93 Copy quote

• Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one possibility: simple surrender and obedience - not interpreting or applying it, but doing and obeying it. That is the only way to hear his words. He does not mean for us to discuss it as an ideal. He really means for us to get on with it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Mean, Simple

  7 Copy quote

• It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Children, Parent, Should

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

  89 Copy quote

• Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. The heart which clings to goods receives with them the choking burden of worry. Worry collects treasures, and treasures produce more worries. We desire to secure our lives with earthly goods; we want our worrying to make us worry-free, but the truth is the opposite. The chains which bind us to earthly goods, the clutches which hold the goods tight, are themselves worries.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Believe, Heart, Opposites

  211 Copy quote

• We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only service is always to have to 'offer' something when they are together with other people. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking. Many people seek a sympathetic ear and do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking even when they should be listening.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Brother, Thinking

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

  74 Copy quote

• Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Justice, Compromise, Christ

  41 Copy quote

• If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Religious, Giving Up, Independent

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

  15 Copy quote

• Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Love Is, Judging Yourself, Judging Others

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

  34 Copy quote

• So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Self, Doe, Fool

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

  70 Copy quote

• I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if it runs counter to our own wishes. As I see it, I'm here for some purpose, and I only hope I may fulfill it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Running, Believe, Destiny

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

  33 Copy quote

• The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Grace, And Love

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2007). “I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions”, p.144, Westminster John Knox Press

  61 Copy quote

• The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Sin, Isolated, Persons

  "Life Together".

  42 Copy quote

• He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Doe, Faces

  13 Copy quote

Page 3 of 17

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin