Quote

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

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
Opinion
Clear
Strong
Nature
Form
Crucial
People
Raise
Questions
Advantage

More quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Image
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
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.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
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
Image
If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
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
Image
Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
The Psalter is the great school of prayer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
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
Image
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.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image
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
Image
Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.
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
I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer