Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.
Dietrich BonhoefferOnly the believer obeys โ obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.
Dietrich BonhoefferA love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
Dietrich BonhoefferThe pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.
Dietrich BonhoefferWe have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer