If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer