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

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

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

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

Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.

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

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