Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

As you read the Word of God today, read it with expectancy and anticipation for the changes it will make in you.

God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character.

Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.

As believers, our joy and peace are not based in doing and achieving, but in believing. Joy and peace come as a result of building our relationship with the Lord.

All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.

(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I had read them, I would have broken my head, and I would have wasted precious time that I could have employed very simply in loving God.

The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.

God doesn’t care what you’re not. He cares who you are. You are His, you come from the Master, and when He adds His extra to your ordinary and His super to your natural, nothing is impossible for you.

Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.

The reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man's mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things.

To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

Eve doubted God, and I as a child of God am now to be exactly the opposite: I am to believe him. Eve doubted, and mankind in revolt doubts God. To believe him, not just when I accept Christ as Savior, but every moment, one moment at a time: this is the Christian life, and this is true spirituality.

"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"