Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.

It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it.

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.

I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer. At the place of execution, he again said a prayer and then climbed the steps to the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued in a few seconds. In the almost 50 years that I have worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God.

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.