Quotes About Bonhoeffer

And we finally come to a more mature place in our faith and realize what Bonhoeffer knew: "Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will." We

Dietrich Bonhoeffer made the observation that when lust takes control, "At this moment God . . . loses all reality. . . . Satan does not fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God."5

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.