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Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer