A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. Dietrich Bonhoeffer More Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer More Quotes From Dietrich Bonhoeffer It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren. Dietrich Bonhoeffer community grace christian And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control. Dietrich Bonhoeffer life-changing might world The Church is the Church only when it exists for others. Dietrich Bonhoeffer church Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me. Dietrich Bonhoeffer judgement unconditional-love jesus Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey. Dietrich Bonhoeffer believe Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. Dietrich Bonhoeffer judging-others judging-yourself love-is The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies Dietrich Bonhoeffer midst kingdoms enemy Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters. Dietrich Bonhoeffer significance matter jesus Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe. Dietrich Bonhoeffer obedient believe There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world. Dietrich Bonhoeffer fleeing way world Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them Dietrich Bonhoeffer knowing men two A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol. Dietrich Bonhoeffer godly atheist faith To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's hand alone, we shall be protected even in the greatest danger; and from our gratitude for such protection ever new readiness surely arises for the final call Dietrich Bonhoeffer gratitude lying hands You can only learn what obedience is by obeying Dietrich Bonhoeffer obeying obedience God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. Dietrich Bonhoeffer envy judging love 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. Dietrich Bonhoeffer redemption world needs Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe. Dietrich Bonhoeffer obedience men believe The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. Dietrich Bonhoeffer men happy-life christ The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. Dietrich Bonhoeffer attachment christian firsts Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. Dietrich Bonhoeffer church loneliness people
