Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.
Dietrich BonhoefferMany people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.
Dietrich BonhoefferWe have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.
Dietrich BonhoefferI discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer