Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoefferwas a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential, and his book The Cost of Discipleship became a modern classic...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth4 February 1906
CountryGermany
tree growth fruits-of-the-spirit
Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends
nature children accountability
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
time creative suffering
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
men expression law
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
life happiness success
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
strong men issues
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
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Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
men firsts steps
In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.
mean expectations pants
Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.
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Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
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Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.
church
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.
festivals supreme
Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.