Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.

Everybody who belongs to Christ belongs to everybody who belongs to Christ

If the Holy Spirit lives in you, that makes you my brothers and sisters.

What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus' sake.

The true Christian regards all Christ's friends as his friends, members of the same body, children of the same family, soldiers in the same army, travelers to the same home. When he meets them, he feels as if he had long known them. He is more at home with them in a few minutes, than he is with many worldly people after an acquaintance of several years. And what is the secret of all this? It is simply affection to the same Savior and love to the same Lord.

If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.

Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.

Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.

You need to be in fellowship of a church...If you separate a live coal from the others, it will soon die out. However, if you put a live coal in with other live coals, it will be a glow that will last for hours.

It makes no difference whether they be Catholics, Orthodox, Copts or Protestants. They are Christians! Their blood is one and the same. Their blood confesses Christ.

The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and His work become the one and only thing that is vital between us.

Most of all, God has blessed us by giving us the privilege of knowing Him and walking with Him every day. He did this by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins.

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

Faith in Jesus must be personal but it cannot be private.

As Christians we’re called to belong, not just to believe. We are not meant to live lone-ranger lives; instead, we are to belong to Christ’s family and be members of his body.

You are not saved by the plan of salvation. You are saved by the man of salvation.

[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

God's mercy is boundless, free and, through Jesus Christ our Lord, available to us now in our present situation.

The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.