The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
Dietrich BonhoefferEvery Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.
Dietrich BonhoefferNo sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
Dietrich BonhoefferSelf-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.
Dietrich BonhoefferThere are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become truly afraid. These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ....No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian theology finds its beginnings in the miracle of miracles, that God became human.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer