Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) — Theologe und Widerstandskämpfer · Lutherisch · Deutschland
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) war ein deutscher lutherischer Theologe, Pfarrer und führender Vertreter der Bekennenden Kirche, der unter anderem in Berlin, London und Finkenwalde wirkte. Er prägte den Begriff der „teuren Gnade“ und schloss sich aus christlicher Überzeugung dem Widerstand gegen das nationalsozialistische Regime an, weshalb er 1945 im Konzentrationslager Flossenbürg ermordet wurde. Seine Schriften fordern Bibelleser bis heute heraus, theologische Erkenntnis mit gelebter Nachfolge und ethischer Zivilcourage in Krisenzeiten zu verbinden.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Hope & Confidence, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Suffering & the Question of God, Prayer & Silence, Discipleship, Meaning & Identity, Grace & Redemption
Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
By gentle powers wonderfully sheltered, we quietly await what e'er may come. God is with us at evening and in morning, and most assuredly on each new day.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus calls us not to a new religion, but to life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on the marriage that sustains your love.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To pray is to draw breath from God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
And when this cup of silence now spreads deep around us, let us hear that full sound of the world, which invisibly widens around us, the exalted song of praise of all Your children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God does not fulfill all our wishes, but all his promises.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In me it is dark, but with you there is light; I am lonely, but you do not leave me.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I believe that God can and wants to let good come out of everything, even the worst. For that he needs people who let all things serve them for the best.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God lets us walk no path that he himself has not walked, and on which he does not go ahead of us.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Whoever knows Easter cannot despair.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
And if you hand us the heavy cup, the bitter one, of suffering, filled to the very brim, then we take it thankfully without trembling from your good and beloved hand.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We must learn to look at people less in terms of what they do and fail to do, and more in terms of what they suffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Where reason is outraged, where our nature rebels, where our piety anxiously keeps its distance — there, precisely there, God loves to be.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God loves humanity. God loves the world. Not an ideal human being, but the human being as he is; not an ideal world, but the real world.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I believe that even our mistakes and errors are not in vain, and that it is no more difficult for God to cope with them than with our supposed good deeds.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The man who drives the plow looks neither back nor into immeasurable distances, but at the next step he must take; looking back is not a Christian thing. Leave fear, sorrow, and guilt behind. But look to the one who has given you a new beginning.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience; I do not understand your ways, but you know the right path for me.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It may be that the Last Day will dawn tomorrow; if so, we will gladly lay down our work for a better future, but not before.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is fulfilled life despite many unfulfilled wishes.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God gives us in every time of need as much strength of resistance as we need – but not in advance.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
This is the end – for me the beginning of life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christ did not come into the world so that we might comprehend him, but so that we might cling to him, that we might simply let ourselves be swept along into the tremendous event of the resurrection.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Many people have everything to live with but nothing to live for.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When one has completely given up trying to make something of oneself, then one throws oneself entirely into God's arms.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am fainthearted, but with you is help; I am restless, but with you is peace.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is scarcely a more blissful feeling than to sense that one can be something for other people.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God did not make the other person the way I would have made him.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We must become ready to let ourselves be interrupted by God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One must always find one's way through the small thoughts that annoy us, back to the great thoughts that strengthen us.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The more beautiful and full the memory, the harder the parting. But gratitude transforms the torment of memory into quiet joy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
My past life is overflowing with God's goodness, and above my guilt stands the forgiving love of the Crucified One.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To bless means to lay a hand on something and say: You belong to God, no matter what.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We receive faith from God always only as much as we need for the present day. Faith is the daily bread that God gives us.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus Christ alone knows where the path leads. But we know that it will certainly be a path of immeasurable mercy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We step out of the shadow soon into a bright light. We step through the veil before God's face. We lay down the burden, the weary garment of earth. We are done with worries and with the last suffering. We step out of the darkness now into a bright light. Why we call it dying? I do not know.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The day is the boundary of our worry and toil. It is long enough to find God or to lose him, to keep faith or to fall into sin and shame. That is why God created day and night, so that we would not wander in the boundless, but already in the morning see before us the goal of the evening.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Gratitude looks beyond the gift to the giver.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God does not seek out the most perfect human being to unite himself with, but takes on human nature as it is.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The hour of our failure is the hour of God's unheard-of nearness, and precisely not of his distance.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Everyone enters discipleship alone, but no one remains alone in discipleship.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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