Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Reflections on Faith, Tyranny, and Love

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To reproach in a modern tyranny a people as a whole for failing to revolt is as if one would reproach a prisoner for failing to escape from a heavily guarded prison.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Discipleship is commitment to Christ. Because Christ exists, he must be followed.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Thus this spiritual love will speak to Christ about a brother more than to a brother about Christ.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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