Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.

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

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

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

Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

The family trees of Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer are everywhere so laden with figures of accomplishment that one might expect future generations to be burdened by it all. But the welter of wonderfulness that was their heritage seemed to have been a boon, one that buoyed them up so that each child seems not only to have stood on the shoulders of giants but also to have danced on them.

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.