Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

#Action

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it...

#Optimism

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit...

#Judgement, #Suffering

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out...

#Mankind

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing,...

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God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of...

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

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To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit...

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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves...

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

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Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

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One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

#Dietrich Bonhoeffer