Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to refuse responsibility for deciding about Christ, but Pilate's hands were never dirtier than just after he had washed them.

Not deciding is a decision. Let’s all remember that when we decide not to do something.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.

I find it hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions.

The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.

Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

He who hesitates is poor.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

He who considers too much will perform little.

It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

Usually when I get nervous and don't know how to prepare for something, I just don't do anything at all, which is not necessarily the best idea.