TOP 10 Dietrich Bonhoeffer quotes

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The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

9

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

8

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

7

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

6

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

5

There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

4

The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.

3

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

2

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

1

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.