Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.

The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.

The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

You can choose to acknowledge that there is something you don not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything.

They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.

So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.

My faith instills in me a deep sense of humility and gratitude, reminding me how often I fall short and how much I need the savior, and how thankful I am that God has done for us what we could not do for ourselves.

Begin to know Him now, and finish never

A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.

Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change. There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.

Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.

I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.

We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget all the questions and we become like the pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men.

The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility-Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge.

No one can sense his own weakness is at least a small temptation is not allowed to afflict either his body or his soul. Then, comparing his weakness to the help of God, a man comes to know its magnitude. But whoever does not know that he needs God's help, let him make many prayers. Insofar as he multiplies them, in that measure will he be humbled.

We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.

We receive God's grace by humbly admitting that we need it.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

Study to know Him more and more, for the more you know, the more you will love Him.

We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.

God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.