When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
Dietrich BonhoefferTag: calling persecution missions
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
Dietrich BonhoefferTag: theology
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Dietrich BonhoefferTag: kindness compassion empathy suffering understanding-others
To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depths of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
Dietrich BonhoefferThe ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrich BonhoefferWhere God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
Dietrich BonhoefferI'm still discovering, right up to this moment, that it is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities. In so doing, we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God.
Dietrich BonhoefferJesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
Dietrich BonhoefferTag: christianity evangelism
time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
Dietrich BonhoefferBarth was the first theologian to begin the criticism of religion...but he set in its place the positivist doctrine of revelation which says in effect, 'Take it or leave it': Virgin Birth, Trinity or anything else, everything which is an equally significant and necessary part of the whole, which latter has to be swallowed as a whole or not at all. That is not in accordance with the Bible. There are degrees of perception and degrees of significance, i.e. a secret discipline must be re-established whereby the mysteries of the Christian faith are preserved from profanation.
Dietrich BonhoefferTag: christianity mystery barth
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