Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German: 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German pastor, theologian, spy,...
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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
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.
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
Politics are not the task of a Christian. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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
By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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
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.