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

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

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

The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light

Bonhoeffer knew that twisting the Truth to sell it more effectively was inexcusable. For Bonhoeffer the challenge was to present the Truth as purely as possible without attempting to help it along or dress it up.