Quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.

As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future.

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

Only the suffering God can help.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.

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.

If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet.

All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.

Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.

We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.

God is not free from human beings but for them.

Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.

The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know.

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

... there are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in the Christ event/redemption and creation.

Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.