Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#empathy #kindness #suffering #understanding-others #suffering

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#music #power-of-music #music

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#love

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#human-nature #life #sin #faith

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#missions #persecution #christ

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#evangelism #jesus

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#justice #justice

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#judging #grace

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#board #corridor #direction #other #running

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#christ