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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.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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 its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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 bitter, if we have not become bitter ourselves. Death is grace, the greatest gift o...

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

(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 before.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy