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.

...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.

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. They’ve substituted a toothless ‘freedom of worship’ for ‘freedom of religion’.

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