Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

“The blessedness of waiting is lost on those who cannot wait, and the fulfillment of promise is never theirs. They want quick answers to the deepest questions of life and miss the value of those times of anxious waiting, seeking with patient uncertainties until the answers come. They lose the moment when the answers are revealed in dazzling clarity.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer”
― Hourly History, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Life from Beginning to End

“It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated.”
― Hourly History, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Life from Beginning to End

“Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer”
― Hourly History, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Life from Beginning to End