If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?
Dietrich BonhoefferChristianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
Dietrich BonhoefferThat fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.
Dietrich BonhoefferWhen our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
Dietrich BonhoefferJudgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer