Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

I love you,” she says. “I love you,” I say. And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that. I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don’t deserve it at her expense.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.

When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Without love, we are not free from our own self interest.

One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.

'The Lady' is an incredible love story about how a family was cut off from each other, about sacrifice, about the ability to put the needs of million of people before your own.

Honestly, what Jesus was about was laying his life down for the marginalized who didn't have it all together.

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.

Love those you hate you.

Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. The price you must pay for your own liberation through another's sacrifice is that you in turn must be willing to liberate in the same way, irrespective of the consequences to yourself.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment.

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

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.