Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

by Eric Metaxas

faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.

What God has done, it is well done. His will is always just. Whatever He will do to me, In Him I’ll ever place my trust.

Greek poet Archilochus, who famously declared that “the fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”

The designation Catholic or Protestant is unimportant. The important thing is God’s word.

but he often said that if one couldn’t communicate the most profound ideas about God and the Bible to children, something was amiss.

“Embodiment is the end of God’s path.”

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

Then he came to his main point: the essence of Christianity is not about religion at all, but about the person of Christ.

religion was a dead, man-made thing, and at the heart of Christianity was something else entirely—God himself, alive.

He then aggressively attacked the idea of “religion” and moral performance as the very enemies of Christianity and of Christ because they present the false idea that somehow we can reach God through our moral efforts.

“Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.”