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

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

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.

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

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

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.