And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple – everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don’t believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Firsts

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Strong

Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak and pray the same Word at the same time; in other words, because here they can unite in the Word.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy’s hatred, the greater his need of love.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays’Our Father’asks God only for peace.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Possessions are not God’s blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Silence

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the inner life. Any attempt to escape from the world must sooner or later be paid for with a sinful surrender to the world.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely to love our neighbor.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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