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.

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life time unenriched by experience creative endeavor enjoyment and suffering.

One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ then we pray correctly.

Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him whether the heart is full or empty.