The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake. Dietrich Bonhoeffer More Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer More Quotes From Dietrich Bonhoeffer Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis. Dietrich Bonhoeffer hypothesis atheism men Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power. Dietrich Bonhoeffer recovery church christian Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem of himself. He can cope with every danger except the danger of human nature itself. In the last resort it all turns upon man. Dietrich Bonhoeffer lasts spiritual men The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry. Dietrich Bonhoeffer wisdom heart mean Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to Dietrich Bonhoeffer real evil jesus Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful. Dietrich Bonhoeffer tools principles hands Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith. Dietrich Bonhoeffer christian men world The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is to this image that the life of the disciples must be conformed; in other words, they must be conformed to his death (Phil 3.10, Rom 6.4) The Christian life is a life of crucifixion (Gal 2.19) In baptism the form of Christ's death is impressed upon his own. They are dead to the flesh and to sin, they are dead to the world, and the world is dead to them (Gal 6.14). Anybody living in the strength of Christ's baptism lives in the strength of Christ's death. Dietrich Bonhoeffer baptism christian world God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings. Dietrich Bonhoeffer mouths christian life The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. Dietrich Bonhoeffer church ordinary helping The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the freewill offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. Dietrich Bonhoeffer offering self giving Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm. Dietrich Bonhoeffer whole-life spiritual christian If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask first what they have to do with us, but what they have to do with Jesus Christ...It does not depend, therefore, on whether the Psalms express adequately that which we feel at a given moment in our heart. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. Dietrich Bonhoeffer prayer heart jesus The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him. Dietrich Bonhoeffer anxiety worry new-day The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing. Dietrich Bonhoeffer discipleship essence grace Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive. He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial. Dietrich Bonhoeffer broken christian dream Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Dietrich Bonhoeffer grace doors men A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him. Dietrich Bonhoeffer community jesus There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture. Dietrich Bonhoeffer venture safety way With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. Dietrich Bonhoeffer practice christianity ideas
