Quote

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

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
Exists
Church
Others

More quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Image
Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
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
Image
In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
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
Image
Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The Psalter is the great school of prayer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
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
Image
If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer