Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.

My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior... I am fighting for the work of the Lord.

If I walk with the world, I can't walk with God.

A Christian is not his own master, since all his time belongs to God.

It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest.

See what a hidden life the life of a good Christian is, and how much it is concealed from the eye and observation of the world. The most important part of the business lies between God and our own souls, in the frame of our spirits and the working of our hearts, in our actions that no eye sees except the all-seeing God. Justly are the saints called God's hidden ones, and His secret is said to be with them. They have meat to eat and work to do that the world does not know of, as well as joys, griefs, and cares that a stranger does not share.

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.

The heart of a Christian, like the moon, commonly suffers an eclipse when it is at the full, and that by the interposition of the earth.

Regardless of the day or the hour; whether in seeming good times or bad, the Christian lives in the world for the good of the world and for the sake of the world.

I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it.

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

We are indeed the light of the world-but only if our switch is turned on.

Spiritual Christians look upon the world not as a playground but as a battleground.

Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him.

If contempt of the world and heavenly affection is a necessary temper of christians, it is necessary that this temper appear in the whole course of their lives, in their manner of using the world, because it can have no place anywhere else.

I think as Christians, we all have the same calling, and that calling is to love God with all our heart, mind, and soul and love others as ourselves and to glorify God in everything that we do.

I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with a lot of entertainment options because there's so many distractions.

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

May the World Day of Consecrated Life be a timely occasion to rediscover the centrality of Jesus in our lives.

Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

One of the chief duties which [the Christian] will punctually and carefully fulfill is the duty of prayer. You will remember in the Book of Acts, when Saul the persecutor was converted by a special miracle, the sign given of his conversion was this: "Behold he prayeth." Prayer is the breath of the soul. Just as breathing is the sign of life, prayer is the sign of the life of the soul.