"Here all fear of one another, all timidity about praying freely in one's own words in the presence of others may be put aside where in all simplicity ...












Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer quotes
"Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living.
"Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to ...
"Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
"A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their...
"The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really ...
"Those who wish even to focus on the problem of a Christian ethic are faced with an outrageous demand-from the outset they must give up, as inappropria...
"Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers ...