First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Politics are not the task of a Christian. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered, and confidently waiting come what may, we know that God is with us night and morning, and never fails to greet us each new day. Yet is this heart by its old foe tormented, still evil days bring burdens hard to bear Oh, give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare. And when this cup You give is filled to brimming with bitter suffering, hard to understand, we take it thankfully and without trembling, out of so good and so beloved a hand. Yet when again in this same world You give us the joy we had, the brightness of Your Sun, we shall remember all the days we lived through, and our whole life shall then be Yours alone. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he left, he said to another prisoner, This is the end but for me, the beginning of life. He was hanged the next day, less than a week before the Allies reached the camp. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the freewill offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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