16 Quotations by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- 1. A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
- 2. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
- 3. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not ...
- 4. If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
- 5. It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore ...
- 6. It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions ...
- 7. Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
- 8. Politics are not the task of a Christian.
- 9. Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to s ...
- 10. Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrou ...
- 11. The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and f ...
- 12. The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiratio ...
- 13. The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the sam ...
- 14. The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
- 15. Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endea ...
- 16. When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
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