It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.
Dietrich BonhoefferThe fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
Dietrich BonhoefferThe right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
Dietrich BonhoefferIntercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer