Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the body's help and service, is better disposed for the service and praise of our Creator and Lord.

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights.

In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.

Missionary work essentially is a priesthood responsibility, and all of us who hold the priesthood are the Lord's authorized servants on the earth and are missionaries at all times and in all places - and we always will be.

The Holy Trinity should be thought of as a Communion of Divine Persons—radiating his presence throughout creation, calling unworthy human beings to be his friends, and infusing into them his love so that they might love with it.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

We have opportunities to be used by the living God on a daily basis and I don't need the platform of a concert hall to do so.

A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.

When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that this entailed. Even though we have always been present in this created universe, we now became flesh and blood. It would be like this bird (a jay), whose nature it is to fly, choosing to only walk and remain grounded. He doesn't stop being a bird, but it does alter his experience of life significantly.

Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.

Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee

I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us. I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person

Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.

The incarnation is “a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken.

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

When we celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies into being limited all power and, for love of us, came to us in the powerless body of a human baby.

All service is the same with God.

God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed.

God doesn't work for us; we work for God.

In that Holy Place where you tell Him everything and he understands; there are angels who stand in wait to hear his every command. How may they serve you and increase your joy?

If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?