Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's hand alone, we shall be protected even in the greatest danger; and from our gratitude for such protection ever new readiness surely arises for the final call

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.

Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

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

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

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.

The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.

When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death.