Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes


We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.


Citations

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Life Together. Translated by John W. Doberstein, Harper & Row, 1954, p. 29.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Born: February 4, 1906
  • Died: April 9, 1945
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Theologian

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential, and his book The Cost of Discipleship has been described as a modern classic.