The more science learns, the clearer it is that although we are here, we shouldn't be. Once we begin considering the details of it all, the towering ….

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loade….

When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they m….

True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light.

Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's wo….

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it..

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other po….

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history..

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain..

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power..

They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren't much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that wh….

...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he could….

He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no partic….

Bonhoeffer knew that twisting the Truth to sell it more effectively was inexcusable. For Bonhoeffer the challenge was to present the Truth as purely ….

Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is..

The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won under the c….

The family trees of Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer are everywhere so laden with figures of accomplishment that one might expect future generations to be b….

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer).

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom..

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance..

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it..