Quote

Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Age: 39 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 4
Died: 1945
Died: April 8
Pastor
Philosopher
Poet
Resistance Fighter
Theologian
Breslau
Bonhoeffer
Asks
Nothing
Devoid
Need
Valentine
Needs
Consumed
Love
Seeks
Utterly
Hatred
Return

More quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Image
It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
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
Image
Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend – it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
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
Image
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
Image
He who loves community destroys community he who loves the brethren builds community.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
Advent creates people, new people.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
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
Image
Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer