Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge.
Dietrich BonhoefferWe must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Dietrich BonhoefferSelf-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.
Dietrich BonhoefferWhen our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
Dietrich BonhoefferWe must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer