Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

Hatred can be overcome only by love.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

I am not able of hating. I am not able of hating.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

I just want to instill love into everyone's hearts. I know that sounds cheesy, but it's true.

I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light that fire in the hearts of others. And it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much.

Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

We can all learn to conquer hatred through love -drawing on the power released through the practice of meditation to throw all our weight, all our energy, and all our will on the side of what is patient, forgiving, and selfless in ourselves and others.

The will of a wealthy New York woman, in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children, left them the following advice: Love one another. Hold fast to that whether you understand one another or not, and remember nothing really matters except being kind to one another in the name of Christ and to all the world as far as you can reach.