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

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

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

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

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

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.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

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

You can be great in any area of life, just learn to convert time into added value and tangible products.

If you follow your heart, you will find harmony.

He was painfully aware of the fact that he was in his underwear. Not the best situation in which to fight people.

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.

The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.

The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child's reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.

People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance

Remember: once you have ascertained that you are dealing with hostile intruders, the staircase becomes a free-fire zone.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.