Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will occur along life's way and all that is required is the willingness to act when the time comes. The needs of the neighbor, especially those of the weak and downtrodden, the victimized and the persecuted, the ill and the lonely, will become abundantly evident.

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.