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.

...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.

He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.

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

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.