The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.
Dietrich BonhoefferThe gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.
Dietrich BonhoefferHe who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.
Dietrich BonhoefferChristian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.
Dietrich BonhoefferIn a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don't insist on your rights, don't blame each other, don't judge or condemn each other, don't find fault with each other, but accept each other as you are, and forgive each other every day from the bottom of your hearts.
Dietrich BonhoefferNo one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of heaven, no one has heard about his realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existenceDeath is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer