Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

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

The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.

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

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

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

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.