To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for God’s purposes.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

freedom of religion.

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Death is only dreadful for those who live in dread and fear of it. Death is not wild and terrible, if only we can be still and hold fast to God’s Word. Death is not...

Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

(Bonhoeffer’s) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone...

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that’s because it is the most threatening to those in power.

They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren’t much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong.

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God’s word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of...

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

He well knew his mind’s natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose–indeed, he called it his...

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.

Bonhoeffer examined and dismissed a number of approaches to dealing with evil. “Reasonable people,” he said, think that “with a little reason, they can pull back together a structure that has come apart at the...

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made “legal.” Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

Describing Bonhoeffer’s demeanor on returning to danger in Germany rather than safety in America, with “with a strong and joyful firmness such as only arises out of realized freedom.

the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.