Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to God's purposes, even to the point o….

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority..

Many years later, after Niemöller had been imprisoned for eight years in concentration camps as the personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler, he penned thes….

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion..

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

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

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

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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

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 ….

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….

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….

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