Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

God offers authentic LOVE. His devotion is the real deal. But He won't give you the genuine until you surrender the imitations.

Love is the Divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every Soul falls Into them.

I love being able to stay real to the world.

Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

Jesus loves the world, as do I.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor people who need our help." Nor must we search for signs of "loveworthiness." Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.

For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world.

That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act...

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.

Real love doesn't die. It's the physical body that dies. Genuine, authentic love has no expectations whatsoever; it doesn't even need the physical presence of a person. ... Even when he is dead and buried that part of you that loves the person will always live.

It is possible to be at the top of Christian service, respected and admired, and not have that indispensable ingredient by which God has chosen to work in His world today - the absolute sacrificial agape love of the Eternal God.

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it onscreen.

I go to the real world, not the Internet.

Trust isn't something that's spoken and love's never wrong when it's real.

God says "I have given you this gift, and it is a real gift. I want you to love me freely, and I will do anything, anything up to giving up the most precious thing I could say I have, my son, to prove I love you. Please come back."

Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself

I never knew up to that time that God loved us so much. This heart of mine began to thaw out; I could not keep back the tears. I just drank it in...I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in the world and that is love.

When you love without conditions, you the human and you the God, align with the spirit of life moving through you.

The first angle is, love questions not. It is not a beggar. ... When love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship through love. Whether God is merciful is no longer questioned. He is God; He is my love. Whether God is omnipotent and almighty, limited or unlimited , is no longer questioned.

Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.

We cannot be sure if we are loving God, although we may have good reasons for believing that we are, but we can know quite well if we are loving our neighbor. And be certain that, the farther advanced you find you are in this, the greater the love you will have for God.