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The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Mean, Men, Church

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian, Community, Church
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2013). “Letters to London: Bonhoeffer’s previously unpublished correspondence with Ernst Cromwell, 1935-36”, p.93, SPCK

It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Church, Tasks, Youth

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Loneliness, People, Church
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2008). “Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 1928-1931”

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Church
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Geffrey B. Kelly (1990). “A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Harpercollins

The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Morning, Light, Church
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.27, SCM Press

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Church, Wheels, Victim
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1995). “Selected Writings”, HarperCollins

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Church, Ordinary, Helping
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian, Recovery, Church
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1996). “Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible”, Fortress Pr

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Father, War, Church

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