Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every stage of life.

We do not have to make the Bible relevant - it already is! But we do have to show its relevance.

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?

Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.

The Bible is not an antiquated text. The scriptures are the text that will lead us into the future.

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

Bible is more reliable than tradition

If we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, then we shouldn't be recognizing it only as a book of historical and economic significance.

The Word of the Lord endures forever. The Bible is to judge us; we're not to judge the Bible.

The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.

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 Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.

As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus.

The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to decide if this physical thing is true. There is no room for interpretation.

A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.