Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”

“It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives t...”

“Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.”

“Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.”

“Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.”

“We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”

“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.”

“It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.”

“The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high...”