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“A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.”

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German pastor, theologian, philosopher, and member of the resistance against the Nazis. Born on February 4, 1906, in Germany, he was executed on April 9, 1945 in a concentration camp. more

“In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity. The world will allow itself to be subdued only by success. It is not ideas or opinions which decide, but deeds. Success alone justifies wrongs done With a frankness and off-handedness which no other earthly power could permit itself, history appeals in its own cause to the dictum that the end justifies the means The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.”

“Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.”

Hands Principles Tools Thrown Hands Of God

Book:Centenary Reflections

Source: Centenary Reflections

“It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.”

Persons Prayer Imagine Praying Easier Vanity Vain Odds Murderer

Book:Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 1928-1931

Source: Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 1928-1931

“The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The clergy must live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live in Christ, to exist for others.”

Source: Bonhoeffer for a New Generation

“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.”

Ifs Needs Mean Sometimes Wonderful Prove Expectations Firm Kicks Pants Wonderful Things Prove It

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.”

People Believe Kind Together I Believe Christ Church Common Depends Following Sermons Discipleship Restoration Uncompromising Sermon On The Mount Following Christ

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.”

World Needs Should Christ Redemption Conquer Christ Alone

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.”

Needs Christian Strong Realizing Community Weak Fellowship Elimination Christian Community

Book:Life Togehter

Source: Life Togehter

“I can never know beforehand how God’s image should appear in others. That image always manifests a completely new and unique form that comes solely from God’s free and sovereign creation. To me the sight may seem strange, even ungodly. But God creates every man in the likeness of His Son, the Crucified. After all, even that image certainly looked strange and ungodly to me before I grasped it.”

Knows Men Should May I Can Seems Form Creation Strange Son Unique Sight Every Man Sovereign

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.”

May Reality Christian Christ Realizing Ideals Brotherhood

Book:Life Together

Source: Life Together

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