The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.
Dietrich BonhoefferThe essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich BonhoefferSelf-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.
Dietrich BonhoefferWe ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God's will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer