110+ Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes On Grace, Faith And Community

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Theologian who was an early member of the Confessing Church, a Protestant church opposed to the Nazi regime. He was involved in the German Resistance movement and was eventually arrested and executed by the Nazis in 1945. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world continue to be influential today. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer on grace, faith, love.

Top 10 Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

1. Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
2. Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
3. 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.
4. The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.
5. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
6. 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.
7. Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
8. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
9. Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
10. We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Short Quotes

• Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.
• If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
• When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me
• The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
• Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
• A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
• There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
• The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
• time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
• Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Grace

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Faith

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

It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Each morning is a new beginning of our life. Each day is a finished whole. The present day marks the boundary of our cares and concerns. It is long enough to find God or lose Him, to keep faith or fall into disgrace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Love

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. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich! — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Community

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Discipleship

Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Prayer

The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Psalter is the great school of prayer. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Church

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the freewill offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Suffering

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to Jesus. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The cross is suffering with Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Marriage

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God wants to see human beings, not ghosts who shun the world. . . . Our marriage must be a 'yes' to God's earth. It must strengthen our resolve to do and accomplish something on earth. I fear that Christians who venture to stand on earth on only one leg will stand in heaven on only one leg too. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Hope

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Faithful

Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Weak

Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Christian

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. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak and pray the same Word at the same time; in other words, because here they can unite in the Word. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. … So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Politics are not the task of a Christian. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Bring

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

grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come. — 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

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

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. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is the idea that "grace" did it all for me so I do not need to change my lifestyle. The believer who accepts the idea of "cheap grace" thinks he can continue to live like the rest of the world. Instead of following Christ in a radical way, the Christian lost in cheap grace thinks he can simply enjoy the consolations of his grace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, l honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger; whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high; whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory of God precisely in his lowliness. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved, but rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to his Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in God's presence and to be with God alone. It means not grieving God, but rejoicing in God simply because it is God who is involved, and because we are permitted to know and have God, and to speak with and live with God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he left, he said to another prisoner, This is the end - but for me, the beginning - of life. He was hanged the next day, less than a week before the Allies reached the camp. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing, Lord." How could he when he knows that despite hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger, the Lord is always at his side? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Life Lessons by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

1. Dietrich Bonhoeffer taught that living a life of integrity and faithfulness to God is more important than conforming to the standards of the world.
2. He believed that it is important to stand up for what is right, even if it means facing opposition or persecution.
3. He also taught that love and compassion should be extended to everyone, regardless of their beliefs or backgrounds.