Dietrich Bonhoeffer Tasks Quotations

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

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

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.

One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.