{"author":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer","author_id":"Dietrich+Bonhoeffer","total_quotes":188,"quotes":[{"text":"If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?","author":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer","tags":["comparison","judgment","sin","sinners-like-me"],"id":4902,"author_id":"Dietrich+Bonhoeffer"},{"text":"The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world. ","author":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer","tags":["christianity","creation","temptation"],"id":5001,"author_id":"Dietrich+Bonhoeffer"},{"text":"No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason? ... How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?","author":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer","tags":["belief","christianity","communion","doubt","faith","forgiveness","obedience","surrender"],"id":6192,"author_id":"Dietrich+Bonhoeffer"},{"text":"Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.","author":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer","tags":["theology"],"id":7121,"author_id":"Dietrich+Bonhoeffer"},{"text":"Christ became our Brother in order to help us. Through him our brother has become Christ for us in the power and authority of the commission Christ has given him. Our brother stands before us the sign of the truth and the grace of God. He has been given to us to help us. He hears the confession of our sins in Christ's stead and he forgives our sins in Christ's name. He keeps the secret of our confession as God keeps it. When I go to my brother to confess, I am going to God.","author":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer","tags":["confession","god","jesus-christ","spiritual-friendship"],"id":7241,"author_id":"Dietrich+Bonhoeffer"},{"text":"Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.","author":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer","tags":["christ","christianity","death","discipleship","martyrdom"],"id":11102,"author_id":"Dietrich+Bonhoeffer"},{"text":"Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions  demanded by work  become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men  but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.","author":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer","tags":["prayer"],"id":11785,"author_id":"Dietrich+Bonhoeffer"},{"text":"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.","author":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer","tags":["children","world","moral "],"id":14944,"author_id":"Dietrich+Bonhoeffer"},{"text":"Politics are not the task of a Christian.","author":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer","tags":["christian","task "],"id":17103,"author_id":"Dietrich+Bonhoeffer"},{"text":"The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out.","author":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer","tags":["action","responsibility"],"id":17714,"author_id":"Dietrich+Bonhoeffer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":188,"pages":19,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}