Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes about God

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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God, Christian, Spiritual Wisdom

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God, Christian, Gracious

Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God, Christian, World

How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved. . . . God is no stop-gap; he must be recognized as the center of life, not when we are at the end of our resources.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God, Use, Want

Letters and papers from Prison, p. 311, 1996.

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

God, Spiritual, Jobs

We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God, Problem, Should

God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God, Attitude, Holiday

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”