With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.

...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.

The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)