Dietrich Bonhoeffer citáty

„Ježíš nepřinesl žádné nové náboženství, ale život.“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nedoložené výroky o Ježíšovi

„Církev je církví jen tehdy, když je tu pro druhé.“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Originál: (de) Die Kirche ist nur Kirche, wenn sie für andere da ist.
Zdroj: [Tam, Andrea, 2008, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Christlich Verantwortliches Handeln - Theorie Und Praxis, GRIN Verlag, 81, němčina, 9783638933858]

„Ježíš nevolá k novému náboženství, ale k životu.“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Originál: (de) Jesus ruft nicht zu einer neuen Religion auf, sondern zum Leben.
Zdroj: [Feil, Ernst, 2005, Die Theologie Dietrich Bonhoeffers: Hermeneutik, Christologie, Weltverständnis, LIT Verlag Münster, 160, němčina, 9783825888770]

„Ježíšovi následovníci jsou povoláni k míru. Když je Ježíš zavolal, došli svého pokoje. Kristus je jejich mírem.“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

„…člověk, jehož jedinou oporou je svědomí, nikdy nedokáže pochopit, že špatné svědomí je lepší, nežli svědomí podvedené.“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

„Nic, skutečně nic se nevyplatí žít bez lásky, celý smysl života se naplní tam, kde je láska.“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

„Máloco obšťastňuje víc než pocit, že člověk pro ostatní lidi něco znamená.“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

„Samotný Ježíš se nesnažil přesvědčit dva zloděje na kříži; čekal, dokud se na něj jeden z nich neobrátil.“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

„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, kniha The Cost of Discipleship

Zdroj: The Cost of Discipleship

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

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Zdroj: Letters and Papers from Prison

„Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers and mockers. For this cause he had come, to bring peace to the enemies of God. So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work. 'The kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing who would ever have been spared' (Luther).“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Zdroj: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

„In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Zdroj: Letters and Papers from Prison

„Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

„The Christian, however, must bear the burden of a brother. He must suffer and endure the brother. It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated. The burden of men was so heavy for God Himself that He had to endure the Cross. God verily bore the burden of men in the body of Jesus Christ. But He bore them as a mother carries her child, as a shepherd enfolds the lost lamb that has been found. God took men upon Himself and they weighted Him to the ground, but God remained with them and they with God. In bearing with men God maintained fellowship with them. It was the law of Christ that was fulfilled in the Cross. And Christians must share in this law.“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Zdroj: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

„In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don’t insist on your rights, don’t blame each other, don’t judge or condemn each other, don’t find fault with each other, but accept each other as you are, and forgive each other every day from the bottom of your hearts…“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Zdroj: Letters and Papers from Prison

„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

„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

Zdroj: Letters and Papers from Prison

„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

„Only thus can fellowship be established and maintained.
At this point it becomes evident that when a Christian meets with injustice, he no longer clings to his rights and defends them at all costs. He is absolutely free from possessions and bound to Christ alone.“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Zdroj: Discipleship (1937), Revenge, p. 141.
Kontext: The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law. The Church is not to be a national community like the old Israel, but a community of believers without political or national ties. The old Israel had been both — the chosen people of God and a national community, and it was therefore his will that they should meet force with force. But with the Church it is different: it has abandoned political and national status, and therefore it must patiently endure aggression. Otherwise evil will be heaped upon evil. Only thus can fellowship be established and maintained.
At this point it becomes evident that when a Christian meets with injustice, he no longer clings to his rights and defends them at all costs. He is absolutely free from possessions and bound to Christ alone. Again, his witness to this exclusive adherence to Jesus creates the only workable basis for fellowship, and leaves the aggressor for him to deal with.
The only way to overcome evil is to let it run itself to a stand-still because it does not find the resistance it is looking for. Resistance merely creates further evil and adds fuel to the flames. But when evil meets no opposition and encounters no obstacle but only patient endurance, its sting is drawn, and at last it meets an opponent which is more than its match. Of course this can only happen when the last ounce of resistance is abandoned, and the renunciation of revenge is complete. Then evil cannot find its mark, it can breed no further evil, and is left barren.