Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

by Eric Metaxas

But does not even that taste of eternity make us ache to enter eternity more truly and fully, at the same time knowing that we simply cannot, any more than we can lick the horizon?

We are saved by faith alone, but not by faith which is alone.”

“God wants to see human beings,” he said, “not ghosts who shun the world.” He said that in “the whole of world history there is always only one really significant hour—the present. . . . [I]f you want to find eternity, you must serve the times.”