Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.
Dietrich BonhoefferStrict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life.
Dietrich BonhoefferTags: self-control
[Paul] has no intention to instruct the Christian community about the task and responsibility of government. His entire concern is with the responsibility of the Christian community towards the State.
Dietrich BonhoefferTags: government the-state
The scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice; they preach to us in every situation the one Jesus Christ.
Dietrich BonhoefferTags: jesus-christ
the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
Dietrich BonhoefferTags: service
Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate. The more clearly we learn to recognize that the ground and strength and promise of all our fellowship is in Jesus Christ alone, the more serenely shall we think of our fellowship and pray and hope for it.
Dietrich BonhoefferThe person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
Dietrich BonhoefferJust as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world.
Dietrich BonhoefferTags: theology
What is worse than doing evil, is being evil” (Ethics, p.67). To lie is wrong, but what is worse than the lie is the liar, for the liar contaminates everything he says, because everything he says is meant to further a cause that is false. The liar as liar has endorsed a world of falsehood and deception, and to focus only on the truth or falsity of his particular statements is to miss the danger of being caught up in his twisted world. This is why, as Bonhoeffer says, that “(i)t is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie” (Ethics, p.67).
Dietrich BonhoefferTags: evil lie truth-telling
The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.
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